Merits and Demerits of Cashless Economy

I would like to share my views on the Cashless Economy.

Nowadays everyone knows how to use a mobile phone. We can transfer money to anyone through phone, after purchasing anything we can pay money by card or we can do online. We don't have to carry huge amounts with us. Now, we can do anything through the internet it may be shopping or ordering food items and many more.

Merits:

* Avoids cutting down of trees hence preserves deforestation.
* People don't need to stand in a queue and wait as time is crucial for every person.
*Transaction time is less.
*No biasing, transparency in the transaction.
*No physical presence is needed.
*Transaction can be seen online no need of paper.
*No need to carry a huge amount of money every time.
*Corruption can be reduced.
*Theft is reduced.

Demerits:

*Rural people may not be able to use cashless memory.
*Network problem can arise.
*Refunding money can be difficult.

Good evening everyone present over here. As the topic under discussion is 'MERITS AND DEMERITS OF CASHLESS ECONOMY', I'd like to share my views on it.

The Cashless economy is a great relief for developing countries like INDIA. But the problem lies in achieving this as most of the people are unaware of using mobiles to date. The good thing is India is stepping forward but the biggest threat is about cybersecurity in which we are lacking behind. Online crimes are getting easier because of this cashless economy. The thing is, every coin has two sides. So what matters a lot is the cooperation of the citizens and what bothers lot is the lack of belief that the people have towards the onsite transfer of money.

Thank you.

I first go with merits, In olden days, if we go outside means we want to take more money and now it is changed that if mobile is where we can use the apps and we can pay the bills without taking any hard cash.

Another thing nobody wants to wait in front of ATM's for taking Money and paying any bills.

Demerits, Due to that, if the people don't have phone or cards and if they don't know how to use the mobile in a rural area that people will face lot of problems so giving knowledge to the people's who are staying in rural areas and overcome the problem.

The cashless economy has made the life of students, housewives, old age people with cell phone very easy. After demonetization by the government, a spike in merchants using online transaction platform has begun.

Now private Indian companies like PayTm, Mobiquik have flurished. This all factors boost the economy of India further simultaneously making payment easier for everyone without standing in queues for hours.

In my view, Cashless economy will be a great solution for many things.

1) for making notes paper is required which in turns causes the trees and green wealth reducing day by day. So digital money will, in turn, provide us the afforestation.

2) There are many people who make fake notes. On the digital state of the transaction, this problem can be solved.

3) Corruption will be almost eliminated because the banks and other agencies can keep an eye on all digital users.

4) When not corruption, we can have the fastest deploying nation.

Hello friends,

As the topic, today is "merits and demerits of the cashless economy", first of all, what is the cashless economy?

It is the way of using digital money instead of physical banknotes and coins.

I think this is a great initiative. Using digital money instead of notes is a SECURE option! we do not have to worry about our money to get stolen by a thief. Also, it is making life easier since no more we carrying huge bundles of notes to buy a fridge/AC/car etc.

Also in my case, there is a demerit too. The risk of getting HACKED! there are a lot of ways by which the money in digital form could be wiped off. Hence we should be aware and also make our family members aware of the ongoing threat.

Hence, I think the cashless economy is a better option if we use it in the right way and also learn to be safe over the internet.

Hello friends!

As I think, cashless is the system with transparency, easiness and least corruption. As it can be helpful to avoid black money that's why India and most of the countries are shifting towards a cashless economy.

Merits:

* It is quite easy. Cashless payments save our effort to carry money with us.
* In some situations whenever we forget to carry our wallets with us, it is a very good option for payment.
* Online transactions save time as well as paper so eco-friendly also.

Demerits:

* Those who don't know about cashless System find it a difficult one and those who don't want to adopt it, it affects their business.

The meaning of cashless economy is a country with least corruption and these are linked vice versa.

If you ask how? Then I would say, cashless economy means transparency in the system and everywhere, and where there comes transparency, the corruption would no more find its way there.

Some facts that I would like to put up in India has 2% cashless economy whereas Singapore has 61%. If you compare the corruption level in Singapore and India it will surely reflect the reason why Singapore has the 61% economy to be cashless.

Besides other advantages, such as being real time, saving paper, saving money printing papers at RBI,

Saves time provides a full proof of the payment, the cashless economy is also suffering from achieving its target. Some of the reasons are, old people still find it satisfying paying cash. Also, vegetable vendors and other road shops who are mostly illiterate hardly know and hence they don't trust on these things.

Besides, due to some internet problem causing transaction done but not credited to others account also creats an atmosphere of dissatisfaction between customer and the shopkeeper.

Cashless Economy means using digital currency in our life especially day to day life. The cashless economy moves our economy in the growing phase. Everything has pron and cons. So here are some merits and demerits of cashless economy-.

Merits:

* Reducing the problem of cash.
* Saving trees because it reduces paper use.
* Saving time.
* Easy to use whenever people feels its requirements.
* Transparency.
* Cashback offer increases excitement among people.

Demerits:

* Illiterate and poor people finds difficulty to use.
* Need internet access.