{"id":127835,"date":"2021-12-10T09:50:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T09:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=127835"},"modified":"2021-12-10T09:50:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T09:50:30","slug":"inaugration-of-infinity-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/inaugration-of-infinity-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Inaugration of InFinity Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question : Who Inaugrated the &#8216;InFinity Forum&#8217;, a thought leadership Forum on FinTech on December 3, 2021 ?<\/strong><br>a. Narendra Modi<br>b. Nirmala Sitharaman<br>c. Harsh Vardhan<br>d. Rajiv Kumar<br><strong>Ans. a.<br>Related facts &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On December 3rd Prime Minister Narendra Modi Inaugrated the &#8216;InFinity Forum&#8217; through video conference.<\/li><li>It is a thought leadership Forum on FinTech.<\/li><li>The agenda of the Forum is focusing on the theme of &#8216;Beyond&#8217;; with various sub-themes including FinTech beyond boundaries, with governments and businesses focussing beyond the geographical boundaries in the development of global stack to promote financial inclusiveness; FinTech beyond Finance, by having convergence with emerging areas such as SpaceTech, GreenTech and AgriTech to drive sustainable development; and FinTech Beyond Next, with focus on how Quantum Computing could impact the nature of Fintech industry in the future and promote new opportunities.<\/li><li><strong>Key points of PM&#8217; speech &#8212;<\/strong><\/li><li>It is noatble that last year, in India, mobile payments exceeded ATM cash withdrawals for the first time.<\/li><li>Fully digital banks, without any physical branch offices, are already a reality and may become commonplace in less than a decade.<\/li><li>He emphasized that now it is time to convert these fintech initiatives into a fintech revolution.<\/li><li>\u201cA revolution that helps to achieve financial empowerment of every single citizen of the country\u201d, he said.<\/li><li>PM pointed out that from less than 50% of Indians having bank accounts in 2014, India has almost universalized it with 430 million Jan Dhan accounts in the last 7 years.<\/li><li>He also listed initiatives like 690 million RuPay cards clocking 1.3 billion transactions last year; UPI processing around 4.2 billion transactions in just last month; almost 300 million invoices are uploaded on the GST portal every month; despite the pandemic, about 1.5 million railway tickets are getting booked online every day; last year, FASTag processed 1.3 billion seamless transactions; PM Svanidhi enabled access to credit for small vendors across the country; e-RUPI enabled targeted delivery of specified services without leakages.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Link:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1777520\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1777520<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question : Who Inaugrated the &#8216;InFinity Forum&#8217;, a thought leadership Forum on FinTech on December 3, 2021 ?a. 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