Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday discussed about UPI and digital payments and praised a content publisher ‘India in Pixels’ praising the melody created through the data sonification process for the amount of transactions done through UPI. The publisher tweeted the graphics with this tune on Tuesday itself. The Prime Minister retweeted this today and said, ‘I always talk about UPI and digital payments. But I really liked the way you have effectively conveyed the message using music for the transactions done through it.’ The Prime Minister has described it as interesting, effective and informative.
PM said in a tweet, “I’ve spoken about UPI and Digital Payments quite often. But I really liked how you’ve used the sound of money transacted through data sonification to effectively convey the point.
Very interesting, impressive and obviously informative! @indiainpixels”
I’ve spoken about UPI and Digital Payments quite often but I really liked how you’ve used the sound of money transacted through data sonification to effectively convey the point.
Very interesting, impressive and obviously informative! @indiainpixels https://t.co/rpsjejjR9J
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) April 13, 2022
PM Modi praises UPI melody
Let us tell you that the content publisher company ‘India in Pixels’ has generated a tune from the data of transactions done between October 2016 and March 2022 through UPI. This tune has been created through the process of ‘Data Sonification’ which has been praised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Prime Minister‘s appreciation took India In Pixels by surprise. It expressed its gratitude to Prime Minister Modi by tweeting. In the tweet, he wrote, ‘Seeing this, the heartbeat stopped for a moment. Thank you so much Narendra Modi Sir for appreciating my idea. UPI is indeed a revolution on which the whole world is eyeing today.
The content publisher had tweeted before this graph, ‘Up to March 2022, Rs 1.56 crore was withdrawn through UPI, of which 81 percent is post-pandemic data.’ It is noteworthy that in the last financial year, the country has registered a year-on-year growth of 33 percent in digital payment transactions. In the financial year 2021-22, a transaction of Rs 452.75 crore has been registered through UPI.
As of March 2022, a total of 1.56 Crore Crores Rupees or 2 Trillion Dollars (2022 prices) have been transacted via UPI. Of that, 81% has been transacted post-pandemic only.
— India in Pixels by Ashris (@indiainpixels) April 12, 2022
