Singer Mika Singh Uses Indian Currency At Doha Airport, Salutes PM Modi for the facility
Singer Mika Singh Uses Indian Currency At Doha Airport, Salutes PM Modi for the facility
In yet another landmark, UPI, India’s digital payment technology was recently approved in countries like Thailand and Singapore.
Singer Mika Singh taking to his twitter account on Wednesday thanked the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for enabling people to use Indian Currency in the Middle East Country Doha.
Notably, Mika used the facility at Doha airport in Qatar amid shopping at a luxury store.
The tweet was posted in the morning and since then has amassed nearly 1.60 lakh views and over 5,400 likes. Twitter users gave thumbs up to the development, welcoming the move and heaping praises on Mika Singh for sharing it online.
It’s the power of India.
Other users shared a number of emojis expressing their happiness and giving thumbs up to the singer’s tweet.
Apart from Qatar, Dubai Duty Free also accepts payments in Indian currency which is also accepted at all point of sales in Terminal 1, 2, 3 of Dubai International, as well as at Al Maktoum International airport, as per The National report. However, the customers are given back change in UAE dirhams, not rupees.
Indian currency is also accepted in Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Maldives and Zimbabwe. Each country, however, has its own rule and cap on the denominations of Indian currency to be used.
In another milestone, India’s digital payment technology UPI was recently approved in countries like Thailand and Singapore. Both the countries signed an agreement in February.
It was India’s first payment systems linkage that allowed real time cross-border payments, and Singapore’s second. Nearly six per cent of all remittances to India come from Singapore.
UPI transactions hit a record high of over 8 billion transactions worth almost
Rs 13 lakh crore in January. It is the leading payment system in India.
The government has also taken several other steps to make UPI international. In the same month, the RBI announced that visitors from G-20 countries will be allowed to make UPI payments to shop in India. Last month, the government announced that Indians in 10 other countries would be able to access UPI from April 30.
News input KV Raman
