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I visited the cashless Gujarat village- Akodara that everyone’s talking about, and here’s my takeaway

Tanya DubeyNov 29, 2016, 09:58 IST

I recently visited India's first digital village and while it is the perfect model for a cashless society, it is also a lesson in digital adoption.
It bunks the myth that you need to live in a city to live a digitized lifestyle.

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Akodara, Gujarat is not just famous for enabling cashless transactions but also for how villagers use technology to make their everyday life easier.

Let's show you how it was made possible.