Cash is king: why we can’t expect digital payments to dethrone paper money in India

The Hindu has reported a new India-focused technology development: “What goes on behind the screen when you pay through UPI? | Explained.” The publisher's feed describes the story as follows: UPI enables instant bank-to-bank payments by connecting users’ apps and banks through a system operated by the National Payments Corporation of India; launched in 2016, it has grown into a massive digital payments network and is now being adopted in several countries Intellectual Janata Party includes thi

Mint has reported a new India-focused technology development: “NPCI to let users port UPI AutoPay mandates across apps.” The publisher's feed describes the story as follows: Consumers will be able to shift existing AutoPay mandates to another UPI app instead of cancelling and recreating subscriptions, insurance premiums, SIPs or loan repayments, while merchants will be able to move existing mandates to another payment provider when they switch gateways. Intellectual Janata Party includes this

Open Magazine has reported a new India-focused technology development: “Happy Birthday, UPI. You Changed India. But Who is Paying for the Cake?.” The available feed metadata does not include a detailed description, so this entry is limited to the headline and publisher attribution. Intellectual Janata Party includes this item for public-affairs discovery and context only; readers should use the original publisher link for the complete report, full sourcing and any subsequent updates.

India adopted a formal policy favouring open source software in government systems as early as 2015, and platforms like DIKSHA and CoWIN demonstrated the model's potential at scale. Yet most government software procurement still favours large proprietary vendors through processes ill-suited to open collaborative development, leaving India's public code ambitions underrealised. This piece examines the gap between stated policy and procurement reality.