Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday launched the National Common Mobility Card (NCMC) under the ‘Made in India’ banner to enable people to pay multiple kinds of transport charges, including metro services and toll tax, using one card, across the country.
It also has the provision to withdraw money from it.
Durga Shankar Mishra, Secretary at MoHUA took to twitter to express his delight on the launch of National Common Mobility Card(NCMC) by the Prime Minister.
Our biggest delight was when Hon’ble PM launched Sweekar & Swagat, the indigenously developed internationally accredited & locally tried and tested National Common Mobility Card (NCMC), Automatic Fare Collection Gate (AFC) & Open Loop Fare Collection Eco-System.@makeinindia pic.twitter.com/nEh3DEhJlh
— Anurag Jain (@Secretary_MoHUA) March 4, 2019
The National Payments Corporation of India(NPCI) informed that the RuPay Contactless card with NCMC is now available with almost more than 25 large banks as debit, credit or prepaid card. It also assured that NCMC card can be used to transit in metros.
RuPay Contactless Card with NCMC is now available with almost 25+ large banks as debit, credit or prepaid. With this launch, RuPay fulfils the promise of One Nation One Card as the same bank issued debit/credit card can be used for many payments including Transit like Metros. pic.twitter.com/n8cV7kR1v5
— NPCI (@NPCI_NPCI) March 4, 2019
The ”One Nation One Card”, the inter-operable transport card would allow the holders to pay for their metro and bus travel, toll taxes, parking charges, retail shopping and even withdraw money.
National Common Mobility Cards (NCMC) offer One Card for all Payments including bus, metro, toll, parking, smart cities and retail. Pilot testing inaugurated at Delhi Metro in collaboration with NPCI, SBI, CDAC and BEL under the aegis of MoHUA. @dilipasbe #RuPayContactless
— NPCI (@NPCI_NPCI) February 1, 2019
The Prime Minister launched the NCMC while inaugurating the first phase of the Ahmedabad metro train service, which is 6.5 Km in length on Monday.
“This card runs on RuPay card and it will eliminate all your travel related problems. Many a times, we do not have change to pay in cash while travelling in metro, bus or train, or for toll and parking. To overcome this issue, an automatic fare collection system was introduced,” PM Modi said.
He added,”Since systems were made by different players, a card issued in one city did not work in another city. Thus, we asked various ministries, departments and even banks to resolve this issue.”
He said with the advent of this indigenously-developed and one-of-its-kind card, the country is no longer required to be dependent on foreign technology.