One nation, one mobility card: By Prime Minister

Dispatched in March a year ago, the National Common Mobility Card (NCMC) - a ambitious undertaking of Prime Minister Narendra Modi - got a lift on Monday when the PM dispatched the services for the Delhi Metro's Airport Express Line. At first, the NCMC had been dispatched in India with the slogan of 'One Nation One Card' on March 04, 2019.

The High-level Committee on Deepening of Digital Payments (CDDP) under the chairmanship of Shri Nandan Nilekani had, in mid-2019, inter-alia, additionally suggested that NCMC cards be usable at all travel areas. All new metro and travel instalments should be made interoperable through NCMC. Every one of those plans about the NCMC card are working out as expected at this point.
The NCMC card has 2 instruments on it – an ordinary debit card which can be utilized at an ATM, and a local wallet (store value account), which can be utilized for contactless payments, without the need to return to the server or extra confirmation. It is imagined that a solitary card will be usable for all local travel requires the nation over.

 

Here are 10 significant things you should know about the NCMC card:

 

1. The National Common Mobility Card or NCMC is an open-loop card, which can be utilized for all local travel requires in the nation over.
2. NCMC is an inter-operable mechanically operable transport card brought about by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs of the Government of India. "
3. It was dispatched on 4 March 2019 and empowers the client to pay for low-esteem payments for different portions for example Travel, Smart urban cities, Toll, Parking and other low-esteem vendor payments, notwithstanding the typical everyday retail payments.
4. The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs of the Government of India (MoHUA) has additionally educated that there is the arrangement regarding putting away cash on the card (in the Global Wallet or Card Wallet).
5. The Global Wallet application in the mobile phone can be utilized for contactless payments across different amenities like toll travel, parking and so on.
6. The possibility of NCMC was glided by the Nandan Nilekani advisory group set up by the Reserve Bank of India. NCMC will permit travellers with RuPay debit card, given over the most recent year and a half by 23 banks, including SBI, UCO Bank, Canara Bank, Punjab National Bank and so forth, to be swiped for Metro travel.
7. The five-member board under Nilekani, the previous executive of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIAI) has additionally proposed a large group of measures, including all payments by the public authority to residents through the computerized mode, to diminish the quantity of money exchanges in the nation.
8. The NCMC office will open up on the whole Delhi Metro network by 2022. NCMC administration will cover the whole 400km stretch of Delhi Metro.
9. NCMC will permit passage and exit from Metro stations with the assistance of a cell phone, known as the automatic fare collection (AFC) framework.
10. Concerned banks have been approached to make their debit cards NCMC compliant, to guarantee accessibility of service.