AIIMS to use smart cards to replace cash at counters

IN a bid to become a cashless institution, the AIIMS is gearing up to launch its own smart card facility that will replace all cash-bound transactions at all billing counters of the hospital including cafeterias, officials said.

- ASHISH SRIVASTAVA

The new service is expected to roll by April next year and would be an add-on facility of payment to the existing electronic modes of transactions like credit/debit cards and UPI etc, they informed.