{"id":106579,"date":"2021-01-11T09:34:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T09:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=106579"},"modified":"2021-01-11T09:34:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T09:34:18","slug":"operationalisation-of-payments-infrastructure-development-fund-pidf-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/operationalisation-of-payments-infrastructure-development-fund-pidf-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Operationalisation of Payments Infrastructure Development Fund (PIDF) Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question : On which date RBI announced the guidelines for Payments Infrastructure Development Fund ?<br><\/strong>(a) January 05, 2021<br>(b) January 02, 2021<br>(c) December 26, 2020<br>(d) December 22, 2021<br><strong>Answer (a)<br>Related facts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On January 05, 2021 RBI announced the guidelines for PIDF(Payments Infrastructure Development Fund).<\/li><li>These Guidelines are issued under Section 10 (2) read with Section 18 of Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007 (Act 51 of 2007).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PIDF<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>PIDF is intended to subsidise deployment of payment acceptance infrastructure in Tier-3 to Tier-6 centres with special focus on North-Eastern States of the country. It envisages creating 30 lakh new touch points every year for digital payments.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some important guidelines are as follows &#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>An Advisory Council (AC), under the Chairmanship of the Deputy Governor, RBI, has been constituted for managing the PIDF.<\/li><li>PIDF will be operational for a period of three years from January 01, 2021 and may be extended for two more years depending upon the progress.<\/li><li>PIDF presently has a corpus of \u20b9 345 crore (\u20b9 250 crore contributed by RBI and \u20b9 95 crore by the major authorised card networks in the country).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By &#8212; Pankaj Pandey.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Link:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rbi.org.in\/Scripts\/NotificationUser.aspx?Id=12009&amp;Mode=0#ANI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.rbi.org.in\/Scripts\/NotificationUser.aspx?Id=12009&amp;Mode=0#ANI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question : On which date RBI announced the guidelines for Payments Infrastructure Development Fund ?(a) January 05, 2021(b) January 02, 2021(c) December 26, 2020(d) December 22, 2021Answer (a)Related facts On January 05, 2021 RBI announced the guidelines for PIDF(Payments Infrastructure Development Fund). These Guidelines are issued under Section 10 (2) read with Section 18 of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":106580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1143],"tags":[2486],"class_list":["post-106579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pp","tag-planning-and-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106581,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106579\/revisions\/106581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}