New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said he has often talked about Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and digital payments in India. In a tweet, Modi shared a 57-second long video by India in Pixel, a data story telling channel that explains various stories through numbers.
I have often talked about UPI and digital payments, but I really liked how you used the money transacted through data sonification to convey the point effectively.
Very interesting, impressive and frankly informative! @indiainpixels https://t.co/rpsjejjR9J
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) 13 April 2022
The Prime Minister tweeted, “I have talked about UPI and digital payments quite often, but what I really liked is the voice of money transacted through data sonification to convey the point effectively. Very interesting, impressive and clearly informative!”
India in Pixel has also retweeted Modi’s comment and said that UPI is indeed a revolution which is being noted globally.
Seeing this left my heart beating! Thanks a lot aranendramodi Sir to appreciate my view – UPI is indeed a revolution which is being noticed by the whole world today.
This pat on my back will last me for years, thank you very much!
— India in Pixels (@indiainpixels) 13 April 2022
India in pics said in a tweet, “Heartbeat to see this! Many thanks to Narendra Modi sir for appreciating my idea- UPI is indeed a revolution the whole world is noticing. My back But this paw will keep me going for years, thank you very much!”
According to the news report, Ashish Choudhary, the creator of Pixels in India, is a software engineer who studied architecture at the university. India in Pixel, one of their many projects, visualizes data about India in various regions and has garnered 13 million views.
Since its launch five years ago, the UPI platform has made it as easy as sending an email by giving users a virtual payment address (VPA).
Meanwhile, in the financial year 2011-22, payments of around Rs 83.45 lakh crore were processed through the Unified Payments Interface (UPI). According to a news report, in March 2022, UPI achieved another important milestone – it processed 5.04 billion transactions for the first time.