Digital ore-rupee worth over Rs 130 crore is in rotation on an airman base as of February 28, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Monday. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had launched aviators in digital rupee in the noncommercial member on November 1, 2022 and in the retail member( e?- R) on December 1, 2022. Nine banks-State Bank of India, Bank of Baroda, Union Bank of India, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Yes Bank, IDFC First Bank and HSBC- have been sharing in the digital rupee noncommercial airman, Sitharaman said.
“As on February 28, 2023, the total digital rupee-Retail and digital rupee-wholesale in rotation is Rs 4.14 crore and Rs 126.27 crore, independently,” Sitharaman said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha. It is in the form of a digital commemorative that represents legal tender. It’s being issued in the same appellations that paper currency and coins are presently issued. When asked about the perpetration of retail CBDC, the Finance Ministry stated, “The e ₹ airman for the retail member was launched on December 1, 2022, in five select locales in Closed stoner Group for making Person to Person( P2P) and Person to Merchant (P2M) deals.” The ministry added that it has on boarded tea merchandisers, fruit merchandisers, road side and sidewalk merchandisers and small shopkeepers, along with institutional merchandisers similar as retail chains and petrol pumps, among others.
The Finance Ministry added that many online merchandisers were also accepting the Digital Rupee. When asked whether the RBI has done anything to popularise the Digital Rupee, the ministry stated, “mindfulness with regard to features of the digital rupee is being spread among the public through media juggernauts and colorful events held by RBI.” The Finance Ministry added that it would take an unborn way, including use case expansion, after reviewing the feedback entered during the aviators.