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A COVID-19 crisis was one of the biggest threats for the entire nation as well as for the whole financial sector. But at the same time, it creates the potential to accelerate the world's transition towards digital payment system. Coronavirus is the great accelerator for boosting the corny worldwide trend towards adoption of digital payment methods, steering the cashless transactions and converting India into less-cash economy. Therefore, this paper focuses on studying the importance of digital payment method during and post COVID-19 pandemic and discusses different modes of digital payment system. Further, it analyses the growth of digital payments in last 3 years, which is the COVID era. The findings of the study reveals that the social distancing is the best preventive measure to protect each other from the spread of deadly virus and digital payments helped us to maintain social distancing while making digital transactions. However, it is critical for the digital payment ecosystem to grow quickly and assist to design the post COVID future in order to boost recovery & lead the transition into this new normal. So, it is suggested to provide proper digital payment infrastructure, education & awareness programs to users and also ensure their digital security & privacy for expanding digital payment system usage.
Keywords:
Cashless Transaction, C0VID-19, Digital Payments, Social Distancing, Technological Innovation, Financial Technology.
Cite Article:
"Digital Payment System In The Times of COVID-19: A Journey Towards `Less-Cash` Economy During Pandemic", International Journal of Science & Engineering Development Research (www.ijrti.org), ISSN:2455-2631, Vol.7, Issue 11, page no.356 - 363, November-2022, Available :http://www.ijrti.org/papers/IJRTI2211052.pdf
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2456-3315 | IMPACT FACTOR: 8.14 Calculated By Google Scholar| ESTD YEAR: 2016
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