Merits and Demerits of Cashless Economy

India is the second-largest smartphone market, would benefit a lot from going cashless. Every year India's smartphone penetration grows exponentially. India's biggest problem it's corruption will be greatly addressed. Using online transaction means there will be a online receipt of a transaction which cannot be removed from the company's server or either of the people.

- A successful example of the digital economy would be Africa in which 92% of the economy is cashless. People have to create a mpesa account which can be accessed through SMS service and money can be transferred through the same way.

- Another example is Sweden in the the entire economy is cashless. In addition to being corruption free, the country has also low crime rates in terms of snatching and stabbing during robbery.

- Bringing the economy to a digital platform will make it easier to trace back black money or laundering cases.

- This vision is in effect in India. The government launched a program in 2015 DIGITAL INDIA with a similar objective.

1. Curbing the issue of black money.
2. Digitizing government services.
3. Digital literacy to the masses.

- Cashless economy means no standing in queues,

Accessing government services, reduce the hassle of paperwork.

- Digital literacy may be the biggest plus point as education means empowerment and people are empowered the country's progress.

- A similar trend picked up the pace from the last 2year which was BITCOIN, a cryptocurrency, decentralized network of payment with its own form of money which each transaction is recorded in every user so that the receipt of that transaction is never erased.

- In addition to being advantageous economically, technology-wise it will be fruitful as developing the platform will need engineers and it's maintenance too, so technological advancements will take place.

- As the transaction can be traced back it will a great help legally.

- Environmentally it will be good as our paper dependency will be greatly reduced.

Demerits:

1. The people in rural will have to be trained to deal with the online platform.

2. The biggest threat will be CYBERSECURITY. Keeping the network afloat means there should be no downtime in the servers and cyber threats will have to carefully monitored and scrutinized.

Hackings, viruses will have to be controlled.

India last year had about 30million cybersecurity threats. If the cashless economy continues by 2025 India will need about 10 million cybersecurity professional which would deal in building the network, maintaining it, averting viruses, hackings, back door entries, etc.

But in conclusion, a cashless economy will benefit a lot creating more jobs better jobs, literacy rate will be increased, government services will take a shorter time, corruption will take toll for the good and India dream of a 5 trillion economy will be fulfilled.

Hello, my self Mangesh and it is very glad to me to be part of this discussion.

According to me, In recent time the used of cashless facilities has increases, which is a great thing to achieve the growth in the overall economy. There a lot of benefits of cashless such as it save the time, cost and many more. I don't think so that the cashless economy has a disadvantage but only fact that data security is an important factor to be considered. I n my opinion after making any platform for a cashless transaction, along with that we should educated the people especially the backword section of our country regarding there uses and it's benefits.

Cashless payment include the direct saving of our money in our saving account in a private and secured way. It is an individual daily need which is in various form whether it include shopping, bill paymets, recharge and many more. The major problem solved by this technology is problem of Double Spending which was major problem in ancient time, and cured in form of Bitcoin as peer to peer transanction and become cashless. It saves the lot of time as well as paper work.

The major problem of cashless is awareness, rural people are not aware of this and if they, then they affraid to follow the technique due to some of criminal fraud in this sector.

But now, its very secure, there are various companies working in this sector and made it fully dicentralized and distributed which allow various authoritive domain to cooperate, collaborate and coordinate in rational decision making process.

Hello everyone!

Today we are discussing about merits and demerits of cashless economy.

In the present situation, Whole world is going to be digitized. It is very prominent to be update and develop ourselves. Everything in the world is invented to improve our life standards. In the process, cashless economy is also one. It improves standards of our life. It saves the most important thing in out life that is time. Everyone will run with time. Right!. Cashless economy rescues our time. Less crime is going to happen. By the cashless economy stealing of money won't happen.

However, every coin has its two sides this implies every thing has its advantages or merits and disadvantages or demerits.

Cashless economy has also some disadvantages. Data will be easily hacked by others. Only limited apps that is yono, sbi is official online transaction app for payments remaining all gpay, phonepe, and other payment apps are not official but we still use these apps for rewards. Our bank details and related data will be easily hacked by these and it may be used for illegal purposes. And next disadvantages is sometimes payment stuck in between the transaction however it may be recovered but is scare the people.

So, I request everyone to be aware of all these things and use everything properly. Everything is in our hands.

Thank You!

Hi, one and all. I'm Shaik Ismail.

So we are discussing the cashless economy. I think most of the developed countries are now doing cashless transactions. So that we assume that if our economy is going to be cashless it will help to develop our country also. Doing transactions without cash getting confused but it will help to do work in an effective manner and complete the process smartly.

As we all know there may be some frauds behind it. But as a responsible person of society, we need to get aware of it and do it securely and safely. Everything can't be possible until we start right so do it.

Thank you!

Hi friend's

As per my point of view. the cashless economy has n number of merits and fewer demerits and nobody can deny the merits of a cashless economy First we should understand what is the cashless economy. Cashless economy means our transaction will be based on credit card, debit card, wallets, netbanking, and by using some transaction app like Phonepay, Google play, paytm and many more no need to use hard cash. It has been many days since govt of India brought the proposal to make India cashless it is an incredible idea but it is still not implemented caused may be several but measure cause is less awareness, less literacy, and less education now let me highlight the merits and demerits first.later we will explain many more.

Merits:
1. The transaction will be easy.
2. Time and energy will be saved.
3. Paperwork will be less.
4. Corruption will be less.
5. Literacy and education will increase.
6. Awareness will increase.
7. The Indian economy will grow rapidly.
8. All the transition-related work will be in my hand.
9. It will help the country to become digital and so on.

Demerits:
1. Smartphone and internet is required.
2. The network problem will increase.
3. The bank account is required.
4. Adequate awareness is required and so on.


Now, I want to share some crucial suggestion with you guys and government of India I am not denying the merits of cashless but before making the cashless economy government of India should spread awareness about an online transaction, adequate internet education still 40% of Indian don't know how to sign on paper especially the people who come from a rural area so first educate them and government should give attention to making digital India because for online transaction everywhere the internet is required. But after becoming cashless nobody needs to go bank, wait in a queue for a long time and so on.

Thank you.

In a cashless economy, the exchange takes place in the form of a commitment by a third party, i.e. Plastic cards, mobile banks etc. You have a commitment, but not the hard cash with you, It is with the service provider which you are using for transaction. He will allow you to use it whenever you want but own it all the time. If you are not using it, he has its possession and he can invest it to gain from it. If they use it stocks, it is used for value creation in the economy. If it is invested in bonds, the government has the liquidity to spend it in infrastructure development. In any way, the money is not going to be idle as it would be if it was in the form of cash with you.

You use the cashless commitment just like a cash. However each transaction made by you marks its footprint on whosoever has possessed it for the number of times. It gives a tool to the income tax department for all the transaction a person has done. So, accounting for his tax deliverable becomes more transparent and it becomes difficult to hide it.

The people who hold it has also an advantage of its safety, given that there is no threat to cyber hacks (which is very rare, given the security feature in the modern IT sector). Generally, the government gives the license of banking/transaction license with very tough criteria which ensure that your money is safe in their hands.

But since the government controls the financial institutions, it can limit your power to spend it in certain situations. Your spending power can be blocked if the government/judiciary finds you guilty of fraud. So in a way, your independence is lesser in the cashless scenario. Many times we hear the news of freezing the account of people/organizations in case of legal cases. Overall, the cashless economy makes the system more transparent where you as well as the government are safe, if one is legally correct.

Merits:

1.There is transparency in transactions.
2.There is no black money.
3.Recorded data is available.
4.No cost for printing and storage of cash.
5.There is no destruction of print currency notes.
6.faster economy.

Demerits:

1. It depends upon technical infrastructure.
2. Always need for internet connection.
3. Very hard for places that are less connective.
4. Rely on networks every time.
5. There is a chance of lose data in cashless economy.
6. Higher security is required in cyberspace.
7. Literacy and education should be 100% required.

As per my point of view, we all know what is the cashless economy. Definitely, any advancing is going to happen in our life there are some merits and demerits and we have to check it. Merits are definitely saved our time, it also prevents corruption, there is transparency in the transaction because we have the history of the transaction. But while thinking on the demerits I think there is only one. That is human error. If we are going to do online transactions then definitely we have to take attention to certain points. Then only there are only merits. And also if we are stepping up in any advancing we have to make their base like we have to make a strong network, reliable and easy to understand service, so anyone can take the opportunity of it.

Hi,

As we all know what is cashless economy. It means all the transactions in the economy only be done through our bank account by using many apps like paytm, google pay, phone pay etc. By using this app all the transactions done through our bank, so there is no loophole for income evasion, corruption or others.

The merit of the cashless transaction - we don't need to take the burden of cash to carry, transaction going to be very secure and safe, getting a lot of offers from many apps for using online payment etc.

The demerit of the cashless economy -It is going to be very tough for the persons who are uneducated because they don't know how to use a phone or the internet for making payments.