Merits and Demerits of Cashless Economy

I want to say that India is a developing country. There every type of people live. Some of them who better know how to use a smartphone and how to secure to your account. But most of the people who live in rural areas and they don't know how to use a smartphone and how to secure your account. Because they have no idea about hacking. They have less access to the Internet. So, I have partially support to a cashless economy.

Hi Everyone!

We have a great topic to debate "Merits and Demerits of Cashless Economy".

Well I strongly support cashless Indian economy knowing that a large no. Of people are against of it and they're right and they have the valid points too like in India where 6.7% population is below poverty than how can they afford smartphones and net recharge; India where 26% people are not educated then how can they use the online platform, India where only 55% population is using the internet; Cybersecurity risk is also high, most of the literate population also don't know the cyber threats and many more still I'm supporting this campaign because this is not the single-day campaign. Government is not converting a cash-based economy to cashless economy in one day. It will take months and years so just relax but Yes now India is not ready to go for complete cashless Economy.

Now let's understand the Merits and Demerits.

Demerits:
1: This campaign will be successful only when the literacy rate is 100% but in India only 74% are educated.
2: People must be able to afford smartphones as well as net recharge and Talktime too where in India 7% population is below poverty.
3: A huge money will be spent to make people aware, educated and making them above poverty.
4: Its Demerits for those who are conventional or orthodox or resist to change.

Merits:

1: It will save time and money in today's world time is more important than money.
2: There will be transparency in the transactions so better will be the monitoring.
3: No need to stand in a long queue for the bill payments or tickets booking etc.
4: Better control over the black money, hawala transactions, smuggling, crimes and money laundering.
5: Will help in economic development.
6: It will rein over the corruption which is the root of black money.
7: People can carry a huge amount of money without any fear.
8: No need to carry chiller or coins.
9: Any amount can be transferred from one place to another within seconds.
10: Through online payments, we can track our expenses and can control our expenses and we can also download our bank statement.

So basically there are thousands of the benefits of Cashless Economy.

Thank you so much for devoting your time to read it.

Hi Everyone!

We have a great topic to debate "Merits and Demerits of Cashless Economy".

Well, I strongly support cashless Indian economy knowing that a large no. Of people are against of it and they're right and they have the valid points too like in India where 6.7% population is below poverty than how can they afford smartphones and net recharge; India where 26% people are not educated then how can they use the online platform, India where only 55% population is using the internet; Cybersecurity risk is also high, most of the literate population also don't know the cyber threats and many more still I'm supporting this campaign because this is not the single-day campaign. Government is not converting a cash-based economy to a cashless economy in one day. It will take years so just relax but Yes now India is not ready to go for complete cashless Economy.

Undoubtedly government is working over it and has taken various measures towards it like Digital India campaign, Demonetisation, promoting digital payment, providing a license to payment banks, etc.

Hello everyone. Today Our topic is "merits and Demerits of the cashless economy". I completely believe we got to the situation now like we can't separate ourselves from gadgets around us. Just with them, we are completely restricting ourselves to the most comfort zone. One of the best advantages of them is online payments. It has reduced human effort drastically just by clicking mobile phone from where ever we are. Earlier it was very hectic to stand in large queues just to pay some bills like ticket booking, home debits etc. Which is not just but a wastage of time. People now are preferring online transactions over offline payments. It saves a lot of time. Not only payments but these digital life has also given employment to a number of people directly or indirectly. The government also taking initiative to this cashless economy by conducting some digital campaigns, taking decisions like demonetisation, encouraging it by starting programs like digital India. Like a coin has two sides. It also has some demerits. Most of the people including literates are becoming the cyberthreat victims as they were not fully aware of this problem. Hackers are just attracting people by sending some spam msgs. Unknowingly people losing their money just with one click. Most of the illiterate people disclosing their important bank details. This is one of the biggest disadvantages. And we all can't afford to have internet connection all the times. So the government has to take some measurements towards these problems and promote people to use cashless transactions.

Hi everyone,

Our today's topic is "Merits and Demerits of Cashless Economy" which is very broad term in itself.

So, in my point of view, pros & cons totally depend on us, if we have a better/complete knowledge of cashless economy then there will be no cons right!

Do you think around 50%-60% population which is educated, they use smartphones and they know how to use the internet, all they aware of cybercrime or digital robbery?

Before discussing merits and demerits I think awareness is a must.

Cashless economy is an economic system where a small amount of cash is used in transactions. Cashless economy is based on transactions made by credit cards, debit cards, wallets or digital modes.

Why a cashless society?

* To avoid Black money transactions.
* Avoid time-consuming.
* To avoid the risk.
* Easy to handle.
* Environment friendly.
* Helps to increase security.
* Helps to reduce illegal businesses.
* Helps to effective transactions.
* Avoid criminal activities.

Disadvantages
* Unable to access because of large-scale illiteracy.
* Unavailability of the internet in the large portion of the country.
* Lack of security of data stored on due to low cybersecurity measures.
* Unavailability of plastic money with people of rural area.
* Lack of adequate infrastructure and knowledge.

Hi everyone, I support for the cashless economy because it has more merits.

Merits :

1. No need to go for current bill offices, dish bill office .. Etc we can pay from the place where we are within seconds. So, there will be no wastage of time like going and standing in queues.

2. Transparency in transaction prevents blank money.
3. Most services like e-ticket booking for buses and other transport services, booking for hotels. Etc all these makes it very flexible for people and convenient too.

Demerits:

1. These are helpful for educated people and it causes difficulties for uneducated people because they don't any to use smartphones.

2. These make it difficult for people who do not have smartphone-like village people.

Conclusion:
We cannot make all or completely online or cash less economy.

Cashless economy is an economy in which digital transactions are included. It has mobile banking, useof debit card or credit card. It focuses on the digital transactions.

Merits of cashless economy:

1. If we are using digital transactions for our payments then we will not carry cash in our pocket. Thus, it will reduce theft.

2. The digital transactions has increased the flow of money in the market and therefore it has increased the market efficiency.

3. Cashless transactions are transparent in nature and we can keep record of all the transactions.

4. People can pay their bills online and there is no need to go bank so, there will be no wastage of time.

Disadvantages of cashless economy:

1. Digital transactions are attacked by hackers and data thefs. They can hack your transactions and thus, we can loose our money.

2. India is a vast country and there are so many rural people who are not aware of these digital payments and transactions. So, it is hard to reach every person. Most people are not able to use different online websites and applications.

3. Cashless economy needs good internet connection which is not there in the every part of the country. Strong internet connections which can reach to a larger number of people at different urban and rural areas will reduce this problem.

In my opinion, cashless economy will be really very good step for India. There are so many benefits of this like, it takes less time, transparency is there, it make the life easy of those people who know this things well.

But we should also not forget this point that there are so many places and people in India who don't get electricity properly, specially in village parts and small towns etc. If those are not getting proper electricity, how can we supposed that those people will use digital gazets to pay or receive money.

So, I think we need to first work on this direction otherwise there will be good come out of it.

Hi everyone,

Thanks for giving me this opportunity to share my opinion. Cashless economy is one of the important tools for every developing country.

Merits:
It reduces time and makes transactions safe. It decreases theft. It makes the world into digitalization.

Demerits:
Still, some rural people are not aware of digitalization. The data may theft by hackers.