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Tag: Smart payments

Mitul Thapliyal and Anant Jayant Natu

The case for smart payments in India’s public finance future

India’s public finance reforms like TSA and SNA-SPARSH have saved ₹26,000 crore in interest costs....

Apr 24, 2025

Anant Jayant Natu and Mitul Thapliyal

From just-in-time to smart payments: A case for innovations in...

This blog highlights the journey, challenges, and innovations in Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) funding. It...

May 14, 2024

Rasika Chopra, Vikram Sharma, Kunj Daga, Diganta Nayak, Subhash Singh, Ritika Singh, Pranav Mehta and Sidharth Abbi

Smart payments playbook: A guidebook to implement smart payments in...

The smart payments playbook is a guidebook to implement the smart payments solution in the...

May 2, 2024

Diganta Nayak, Ritika Singh and Vikram Sharma

Piloting smart payments for Odisha’s special schools

This blog explores the transformative potential of digital innovations to improve the efficiency of public...

Apr 15, 2024

Ritika Singh, Prashanth Chandramouleeswaran and Ameya Naik

A transformative odyssey: The impact of Smart Payments in benefit...

With government-to-person (G2P) payments, governments increasingly disburse welfare benefits directly to individuals or households. While...

Feb 27, 2024

Mitul Thapliyal and Tomojit Basu

Digitizing public finance architecture is the need of the hour

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his recent Independence Day speech spoke about how India’s development...

Sep 2, 2021
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