Increased digital payment to better assess country's GDP: Nirmala Sitharaman

“As we move towards digital transactions, we expect that the temptation for dealing with cash will be brought down, and if each of these transactions is brought into a monitorable network, the GDP calculation can be much closer to the actual strength of this Indian economy,” Sitharaman said at the national conference of All India Federation of Tax Practitioners .

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