Dimapur, Jan 3: A Training of Trainers (TOT) workshop was organised by the IGDC Project for village community workers (VCW), block level coordinators (BLC), and project officials on the topic ‘Cashless Transaction’ on December 30 at the Voluntary Health Association of Tripura (VHAT) conference hall.
The objective of the workshop was to get the trainees acquainted with the ways and means of cashless transaction in the changed scenario of the country’s push towards a cashless economy, the organizers stated in a press release to the regional media on January 3.
The event was organised by the IGDC Project in collaboration with the Union Bank of India.
With Government of India’s never-seen-before impetus on cashless economy and advent of newer technologies like e-wallet, mobile banking, IMPS etc, mode of monetary transaction in this part of the country is also sure to change with time.
“Hence, to equip the Project functionaries with the future of the economy, so that nobody lags behind and commercial activities at village-level is not impacted owing to less availability of liquid currency bills in the market, the workshop ought to shed light on the no-cash systems of transaction,” the organizers stated.
The workshop was designed as a Training of Trainers (ToT) module, i.e. to prepare the participants as ‘trainers’ itself- so that they can further propagate the knowledge at village level among common people for whom it is very difficult otherwise to know about the ways and means of cashless transaction.
Dr. AK Gupta, chief executive officer & project director of the IGDCP emphasised the necessity of getting fully equipped with newer technologies and ways of cashless economy well in advance, before one is caught by surprise with the rapidly changing economic dynamics.
The trainees had been handed with pictorial reference materials, written in a very lucid language, for ready reference, the organizers stated.
“They were also requested to perform 3-4 cashless transactions immediately after returning to their respective villages to get used to it, and then continue with it in their all future transaction as far as possible.”
