The 40th  Hunar Haat is showcasing acceptability of UPI based payments by the common people in a broader way.  In his latest edition of Man Ki Baat address, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday highlighted rapid switchover to digital payments from cash payments across the coutnry. Retail artisans in the Hunar haat have recognized PM’s mention of digital payments on a positive note.

Harshpreet Singh, a Punjab based artisan, expressing his adequate experience with digital payment, remarked that UPI based payment enables a customer to pay more attention and be centric to the products rather than the cost. Singh, who has a special fulkari dupatta stall in Hunar Hat, says that digital transactions have wiped out a lot of confusions in both sides and have narrowed the possibilities of brainstorming in bargaining considerably. He says that the new mode of payment gives a sense of freedom which cash transactions do not offer.  Mr. Alvind, who belongs to Kerala and has set up a spices outlet in Hunar Haat in ‘Mera Gao Mera Desh’, endorses the success of UPI- based payment and says that it has enabled a sense of security among the people through multiple ways. Textile has always been a centre of attention in any market. In Hunar Haat, there are many outlets, showcasing different pattern and trends of textile from across the country. Fatima Sheikh, who is handling a textile outlet in Hunar Hat and hailed from Kolkata, says that digital payment has given a kind of free hand to the visitors as they don’t hesitate to satisfy their choices and carry out complete shopping in merely multiple clicks in their cellphone. On the same line, Mr.Mirza Nisar Hussain has also got a major respite from managing cash and having records of transactions in physical form. Thanks to digital transactions which have provided him all records in digital form without any variance. Mr. Hussain is running is small business in Hunar Hat without stress due to digital payment. On the other hand, customers are equally responding the same tone on digital transactions. Mrs Amrita Deshpande, who has visited Hunar Haat with her family, applauded the new era of transactions. Deshpande said that digital transactions are the driving force behind the retail economy as it has started a new phase of competition among the shopkeepers. This competition has also motivated more people to join this ‘movement’.

The Prime Minister Narendra Modi has stated on Sunday that in the recent years, BHIM and UPI have become an integral part of our day to day life and habit when it comes to transactions. He also made an appeal to the people to encourage digital mode of transaction. Currently around 20 thousand crores rupees transactions are being executed through digital mode on a daily basis, says the PM.