Latur girl bags Rs 1 cr prize for digital transaction
Nagpur (Maharashtra) April 14 (IANS) A 20-year-old electrical engineering student from Maharashtra s Latur town Shradha Mengshete has bagged the Rs 1 crore Mega Draw for Lucky Grahak Yojana. She had made a transaction of Rs 1 590 through her RuPay card to pay an EMI for her new mobile phone.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday felicitated winners of a mega-draw of two national incentive schemes for digital transactions -- Lucky Grahak Yojana and Digi Dhan Vyapar Yojana.
Under the schemes which have now ended 1.60 million persons won varying prizes of a total of Rs 258 crore across India.
The second prize of Rs 50 lakh under the Lucky Grahak Yojana went to a 29-year-old primary school teacher Hardik Kumar from Cambay Gujarat who used his RuPay card for a Rs 1 100 transaction.
The third prize of Rs 25 lakh was won by Bharat Singh of Sherpur village in Uttarakhand who made a transaction of only Rs 100 on his RuPay card.
Under the Digi-Dhan Vyapar Yojana for merchants Anand Ananthapadmanabhan of GRT Jewellers in Tambaran Chennai won the Rs 50 lakh top prize for accepting a Rs 300 digital payment. He immediately announced it as a donation to the Clean Ganga Campaign.
The second prize of Rs 25 lakh in this category was bagged by Ragini Rajendra Uttekar who owns a small beauty parlour in Thane Maharashtra who had accepted a card payment of Rs 510.
The third prize of Rs 12 lakh went to 33-year-old Shaik Rafi who runs a wholesale clothing store in Ameerpet Telangana for accepting a Rs 2 000 payment on his PoS machine.
--IANS
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