The German embassy in India on Sunday lauded India's digital infrastructure and termed it one of the country's success stories. The praise came after Germany's Federal Minister for Digital and Transport, Volker Wissing used UPI to make a transaction in India and was left “fascinated.
One of India’s success story is digital infrastructure. UPI enables everybody to make transactions in seconds. Millions of Indians use it. Federal Minister for Digital and Transport @Wissing was able to experience the simplicity of UPI payments first hand and is very fascinated! He said.
Volker Wissing visited India to attend the G20 summit. Wissing attended the G20 Digital Ministers Meeting in Bengaluru on August 19. In a post on X, the German Embassy in India stated, "G20 Digital Ministers meeting in Bangalore is about to start. Minister @Wissing&our great host Minister @AshwiniVaishnaw have an insightful discussion on deepening Indo-German cooperation in IT and especially AI through our Digital Dialogue."
The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is a mobile-based fast payment system invented in India. It facilitates customers to make round-the-clock payments instantly. So far, Sri Lanka, France, UAE, and Singapore have partnered with India on emerging fintech and payment solutions. India and Singapore signed a groundbreaking agreement in February 2023 to link their respective payment systems. France too took a significant step towards embracing India's Unified Payments Interface (UPI) payment mechanism. An agreement was reached between India and France to enable the use of UPI for transactions, starting from the iconic and popular tourist destination, the Eiffel Tower.
Taking to X (formerly known as Twitter) the German embassy in India said, “One of India’s success story is digital infrastructure. UPI enables everybody to make transactions in seconds. Millions of Indians use it. Federal Minister for Digital and Transport @Wissing was able to experience the simplicity of UPI payments first hand and is very fascinated!”
The embassy also posted a video of the minister checking out the UPI.
This decision comes eight months ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls and was taken at the 85th Plenary Session of the Indian National Congress that was held in Raipur, Chhattisgarh from February 24-26.
It is pertinent here to note that Congress communications chief Jairam Ramesh had cleared out in the plenary sessions that the grand old party had unanimously taken the decision to not hold elections for the CWC and that the appointments would solely be taken up by president Kharge.
The Congress constitution says that out of the 24 CWC members, 12 will come through election. But the election process has usually been overlooked, as a strong nomination culture prevailed in the party. In the past two years, the now-defunct G23 had demanded elections in two key bodies—CWC and the Central Election Committee that decides candidates for assembly and Lok Sabha polls.
On January 23, HT had written that Congress leaders are not in favour of election in the two bodies.
Party leaders indicated that leaders in favour of nomination argued that if elections take place, it would be nearly impossible to implement the proposed 50% quota, a key policy to make the party’s highest executive body more inclusive. Ramesh announced it will come through amendments in party constitution.
In the list of the Congress Working Committee. Jitendra Singh, Sachin Pilot, Mahendra Jit Singh Malviya have been appointed as CWC members from Rajasthan.
On the other hand, Harish Chaudhary, being in-charge of Punjab, has also been appointed as CWC member. The list includes Congress leaders Shashi Tharoor, Naseer Hussain, Alka Lamba, Supriya Shrinate, Praniti Shinde, Pawan Kheda, Ganesh Godial, Yashomati Thakur.
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