• Source:JND

Germany's Federal Minister for Digital and Transport, Volker Wissing on Sunday for the first time used India's Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and was "very fascinated" by the experience. The German Embassy in India today took to social media and hailed India's digital infrastructure, calling it one of the country's success stories sharing a video of the incident.

In the pictures and video posted by Germany Embassy in India on X, Wissing can be seen using the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) to make a payment to a vegetable seller.

Taking to X, formerly known as Twitter, German Embassy in India stated, "One of India's success stories is digital infrastructure. UPI enables everybody to make transactions in seconds. Millions of Indians use it. Federal Minister for Digital and Transport @Wissing was able to experience the simplicity of UPI payments first-hand and is very fascinated!"

BJP leader Amit Malviya also shared the same video and wrote, "India is the new technology evangelist of the world! Here, German minister can be seen experiencing the power of UPI."

Meanwhile, on August 19, Wissing attended the G20 Digital Ministers Meeting in Bengaluru. On August 18, Wissing arrived in Bengaluru to participate in G20 Digital Ministers Meeting.

The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is India's mobile-based fast payment system, which facilitates customers to make round-the-clock payments instantly, using a Virtual Payment Address (VPA) created by the customer.

So far, Sri Lanka, France, UAE, and Singapore have partnered with India on emerging fintech and payment solutions. Earlier in July, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that India and France have agreed to use Unified Payments Interface (UPI) payment mechanism.

Addressing the Indian community in Paris during his recent France visit, PM Modi said, "Be it India's UPI or other digital platforms, they have brought a huge social transformation in the country and I am happy that India and France are also working together in direction. India and France have agreed to use UPI in France. I will leave after the agreement. However, it is your job to move forward. Friends, in the coming days its beginning will be made from Eiffel Tower which means that Indian tourists will now be able to make payments in Rupees, through UPI, at Eiffel Tower."


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