VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Government asked railway employees to convert ATM debit cards to Rupay cards:  The government has said over 12 lakh employees of   Indian Railways   have been advised to convert their existing debit or ATM cards to RuPay-based cards, a move aimed at giving fillip to the ' Aatmanirbhar Bharat ' campaign and the 'Digital India initiative'.   Piyush Goyal, Minister of Railways  informed the Parliament that the railways was also facilitating promotion of the 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat' campaign and the ' Digital India initiative '. RuPay is an Indian multinational financial and payment service launched by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), an umbrella organisation for operating retail payment and settlement systems in the country.   The minister also said "the zonal railways and production units have been asked to facilitate conversion of existing Debit/ATM cards issued to railway employees by banks to the RuPay-based cards in order to give a ...

AWS to scale cloud skilling, and accelerate innovation with education technology startups in India:  In line to complement the growth and diversification in the country,   AWS   has find the way to collaborate with Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced new initiatives to strengthen the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem in India, by empowering school students with cloud computing skills, and enabling entrepreneurs to build innovative education technology (EdTech) solutions on the cloud.   A Statement of Intent (SoI) was signed between  NITI Aayog  and Amazon Internet Services Private Limited (AISPL), which undertakes the resale and marketing of  AWS Cloud services in India .   As per the SoI, AIM will leverage AWS Educate, Amazon’s global program that provides resources for students and educators to accelerate cloud-related learning. This program will introduce the fundamentals of cloud computing...