Digital payments in India rise 12.6% at March-end 2024

Mumbai: Digital payments in India  registered a 12.6 per cent on-year rise as on March 31, 2024. RBI’s Digital Payments Index (RBI-DPI) revealed this.  RBI’s Digital Payments Index measures the adoption of online transactions.

RBI’s Digital Payments Index (RBI-DPI) stood at 445.5 at the end of March 2024. It was at  418.77 in September 2023 and 395.57 in March 2023.

‘The RBI-DPI index has increased across all parameters driven by significant growth in payment performance and payment infrastructure across the country over the period’, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said in a statement.

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The index comprises five broad parameters that enable the measurement of the deepening and penetration of digital payments in the country over different periods.

These parameters are Payment Enablers (weightage 25 per cent); Payment Infrastructure – Demand-side factors (10 per cent); Payment Infrastructure – Supply-side factors (15 per cent); Payment Performance (45 per cent); and Consumer Centricity (5 per cent).The index is published on a semi-annual basis from March 2021 onwards with a lag of four months.