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Govt to roll out digital food currency pilot
Financial Express Pune
|January 30, 2026
THE GOVERNMENT WILL soon roll out a pilot of using central bank digital currency (CBDC) or digital food currency for a limited number of beneficiaries availing free food-grains under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY).
Sources said that the pilot will be launched in a few districts, including Gujarat, Chandigarh and Puducherry, where the beneficiaries under the free ration scheme simply scan the fa
This story is from the January 30, 2026 edition of Financial Express Pune.
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