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Ramappa temple goes digital
Taking the ‘Go Cahsless’ initiative to almighty as part of the Central and State Governments’ push for a cashless economy, the Jayashankar-Bhupalpally district administration has installed 21 Point of Sale (PoS) swiping machines in Palampet village under Venkatapur mandal including the 800-year-old Ramappa temple, an engineering marvel of the Kakatiya dynasty, for the convenience of the devotees a
The district administration has selected Venkatapur, a tribal sub-plan mandal, for its pilot project on promoting cashless transactions
Ramappa: Taking the ‘Go Cahsless’ initiative to almighty as part of the Central and State Governments’ push for a cashless economy, the Jayashankar-Bhupalpally district administration has installed 21 Point of Sale (PoS) swiping machines in Palampet village under Venkatapur mandal including the 800-year-old Ramappa temple, an engineering marvel of the Kakatiya dynasty, for the convenience of the devotees and the tourists.
Incidentally, Ramappa temple is the second in the State to provide PoS facility along with Sri Sita Ramachandra Swamy temple in Bhadrachalam. The demonetisation move invariably resulted in a huge inconvenience to the people visiting Ramappa temple and to the local traders, whose economy is based on tourism.
Against this backdrop, the district administration has selected Venkatapur, a tribal sub-plan mandal, for its pilot project on promoting cashless transactions. Kudos to District Collector Akunuri Murali, who took up a herculean task of promoting cashless economy in a tribal sub-plan mandal like Venkatapur, despite the discouraging stats of the mandal that reveal that only 42 per cent of the people have access to the mobile phones and only 24 per cent have debit cards.
The move was aimed at driving the rural folk towards cashless transactions besides providing convenience to the tourists especially the foreigners, who come in flocks to see the temple.
“The administration installed a PoS at the temple enabling the devotees and tourists offer their donations through digital mode.
This apart, the administration made arrangements to provide PoS machines to local traders on a nominal rental of Rs 250 a month. Normally, the banks charge a minimum rent of Rs 500 a month for each PoS machine,” the DRDA Project Manager K Anil Kumar told The Hans India.
He said that the Collector is also verifying the possibility of administration bearing half of the rental of the PoS to petty vendors in the region. Apart from installing PoS facility, the administration also brought awareness among the Ramappa temple guides about using e-wallets like PayTM.
Gorantla Vijay Kumar, Ramappa Temple Site Guide, said: “Soon after the demonetisation, the locals had a tough time to deal with the high denomination notes tendered by the visitors. Now, the situation is eased with the PoS machines. I am along with my colleague T Venkatesh using the PayTM.”
