Aatmanirbhar Bharat: Railways Urge Employees To Switch To RuPay Cards

Indian Railways has directed its employees to switch to RuPay-based cards to give boost to the flagship 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat' and Digital India initiative. While the railway is organizing camps to aware its 12.54 lakh employees for the switch, the government has advised SBI to issue RuPay-based imprest cards to railway employees. Created by National Payments Corporation and owned by RBI, the RuPay card aims to establish a domestic payment wall for retail payments.