The plan to make all colleges, whether government or private, go cashless in their transactions is in motion in Madhya Pradesh
An order was issued on 12th December, 2020 by MB Ozha, Director, Directorate of Higher Education, directing all colleges to begin taking payments digitally, 15th December onwards. He has also urged colleges to motivate their students to make use of e-wallets, debit or credit cards for payments.

The department is going to hold training camps for principals to provide them training on usage of mobile wallets and digital payments. After the principals are trained, they would then train their teachers who will in turn train their students. Every college is to have minimum two Point of Sale (PoS) machines.

RS Verma, additional director, DHE (Indore Division), spoke to Campuswalkin and said that the department has finished the formalities that were required to execute the orders successfully across the region of Indore.

Verma went on to say that the students these days are very tech-savy, so there shouldn’t be a problem in adapting to the new system. 
Thirty-two teaching departments under the university teaching department (UTD) are to go cashless too.

Narendra Kumar Dhakkad, vice- chancellor of Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya (DAVV) said that they’ve been accepting cashless payments for quite some time now, from payment of college fee to exam fee, it was all being done through MPOnline. There are still some small transactions in cash, but those are going to go digital too.

There are almost 270 colleges across eight districts that are affiliated to DAVV. There are 2.75 lakh students on their rolls, 1.75 from Indore, belonging to different courses.

Students welcome the move

Students have welcomed the move of adopting digital payments, expressing that it’s going to bring along with it greater transparency and help eradicate the flow of unaccounted money in education institutions.

An 18 year old BCom student, Dewansh Upadhyay of Arihant College and a native of Seoni Malwa, says that it is a good decision to stop any kind of malpractices in colleges. He also says that this move will prevent colleges from forcing students to pay in cash and receipts will have to be provided for every transaction.

Another student Aman Gupta, 20 years old, pursuing BTech from International Institute of Professional Studies (IIPS) at UTD says that a lot of students face difficulty in paying the fees in cash, and this move will go a long way in helping the students.

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