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<strong>Attendance: </strong>30 participants representing 16 organisations

The first round-table with Solution Partners, Government of Rajasthan and Catalyst was held on 7<sup>th</sup> April 2017, as a �launch-pad� gathering to address the commencement &amp; progress of Catalyst�s Digital Payments Lab Operations in Jaipur.

<strong>Objectives:</strong>
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 	<li>Validate identified Cluster-centric &amp; City wide initiatives, target metrics &amp; timelines</li>
 	<li>Disseminate learnings from the Merchant Adoption Drive: �Digital Payment Shivir �</li>
 	<li>Review Implementation Projects and value proposition for partners</li>
 	<li>Align on partner support requirements on the identified cluster/city-wide initiatives</li>
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<strong>Key Outcomes:</strong>
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 	<li>Linkages between Tax and Payments</li>
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The audience at the round-table indicated harassment from tax authorities being a key apprehension for small merchants to move towards digitisation. Measures to prevent retrospective taxation was proposed as an interim recommendation by the CM�s Committee on Digital Payments. The discussion outlined GST implementation as an opportunity to promote digital payments thereby simplifying the data compliance requirement.
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 	<li>Importance of Digitising Supply Chain Payments:</li>
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Solution Partners reinforced the importance and presence of key decision makers like brands &amp; local distributors in digitising the supply-chain stream to sustain merchant adoption. A round-table was proposed to bring the various supply-chain ecosystem players together to co-create a solution that addresses &amp; identifies gaps in the current value-chain and publish a data-driven study with recommendations for policymakers &amp; industry players.
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 	<li>Deeper Engagement with Banks having local footprint:</li>
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 	<li>Projects &amp; Road-map:</li>
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Partners brainstormed on the list of cluster &amp; city-wide projects that were identified in the implementation road-map. Prospective partners de-briefed the audience about their solution offerings to align with ground-experiments and expressed interest in relevant projects. Projects such as Dairy &amp; E-mitra digitisation witnessed significant interest amongst Solution Partners, considering the window for opportunity given the cash-heavy nature of these businesses. Creating solid project proposals &amp; strategic engagement terms were taken away as key action items on the implementation plan road-map &amp; review.
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 	<li>Merchant Adoption Drive: Insights &amp; Learnings</li>
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Brief insights of the lead-generation exercise and 3-day adoption drive were shared with the forum members highlighting the learnings from Solution Partners who participated in the drive. Merchant�s total cost of ownership &amp; the need for behavioural shift surfaced as factors that largely influenced merchant adoption. GoR accentuated the need to bring in as many solutions as offerings to <div style="display:none"><a href="http://wroclaw24.pl/wroc/" title="training and nutrition">training and nutrition</a></div> the experiment ground and allow for the market to influence the most apt solution. Educating both the merchant &amp; consumer community simultaneously was underlined critical to endorse sustenance towards digital payments

<strong>Resource:</strong>

<a class="pevents-link" href="https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/GoR_RT-Jaipur-A-Cash-Lite-City.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Paving the Way to a Cash-Lite Jaipur</a>[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]