Demonetization has moved bars off limits, though the idea literally screwed common people, in the beginning, the new era of digital payments has rolled on the surface.

In a bid to encourage the online transactions, the government has come up with some amusing lottery offers under the schemes of Lucky Grahak Yojna and Digi Dhan Vyapar Yojna, and the National Payment Corporation of India has been implementing these schemes.

Luck knocked someone’s door and guess what? that man’s random online transaction of Rs. 1,590 has bagged him a lottery of whopping Rs. 1 crore rupees.

This happened when President Pranab Mukherjee picked up ten random winners from the 100th draw of lots under the digital payments promotion schemes of Digi Dhan Vyapar Yojna and Lucky Grahak Yojna at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

At the event of congratulating the lucky draw winners, six were picked, three among them were customers while the other three were merchants of the above-mentioned schemes.

In the category of customers, the first prize of Rs. 1 crore went to a customer of Central Bank of India, the second prize of ₹50 lakh went to a customer of Bank of Baroda while the third prize of Rs. 25 lakhs was taken away by a customer of Punjab National Bank. It is believed that all the three winners had made their payments via RuPay debit cards. The merchants also won prizes of Rs. 50 lakh, Rs. 25 lakh and Rs. 12 lakh respectively. The names of the three winners weren’t revealed as they were yet to confirm their identities.

The merchants also won prizes of Rs. 50 lakh, Rs. 25 lakh and Rs. 12 lakh respectively. The names of the three winners weren’t revealed as they were yet to confirm the identities and authenticate them. However, all the winners will be felicitated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the occasion of Ambedkar Jayanti on April 14 at Nagpur, Maharastra.

Congratulating the winners and the ideology behind this, Pranab Mukherjee has said:

“India has a long way to go to become a cashless society. The initiatives of the government are a good beginning and we need to sustain and nurture these with active participation from all segments of the society. It is necessary to reduce cash in circulation and impart greater urgency to promoting secure digital payment methods to ensure greater transparency.”

“All efforts of the government will achieve their end only if people were to adopt them proactively. Even countries which are technologically far more advanced than India with comparatively much smaller size population do not have such a system in place. The Aadhaar card initiative is a watershed event in the development story of India” he concluded.