LATUR GIRL BAGS RS 1 CRORE PRIZE
NAGPUR: A 20-year-old electrical engineering student from Maharashtra’s Latur, Shraddha Mengshete, has bagged the Rs 1 crore Mega Draw for Lucky Grahak Yojana.
A 20-year-old electrical engineering student from Maharashtra’s Latur town, Shradha Mengshete has bagged the Rs 1 crore Mega Draw for Lucky Grahak Yojana. She had made a transaction of Rs 1,590 through her RuPay card to pay an EMI for her new mobile phone.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday felicitated winners of a mega-draw of two national incentive schemes for digital transactions - Lucky Grahak Yojana and Digi Dhan Vyapar Yojana.
The second prize of Rs 50 lakh under the Lucky Grahak Yojana went to a 29year-old primary school teacher, Hardik Kumar from Cambay, Gujarat, who used his RuPay card for a Rs 1,100 transaction. The third prize of Rs 25 lakh was won by Bharat Singh of Sherpur village in Uttarakhand who made a transaction of only Rs 100 on his RuPay card.
Under the Digi-Dhan Vyapar Yojana for merchants, Anand Ananthapadmanabhan of GRT Jewellers in Tambaran, Chennai, won the Rs 50 lakh top prize for accepting a Rs 300 digital payment. He immediately announced it as a donation to the Clean Ganga Campaign.
The second prize of Rs 25 lakh in this category was bagged by Ragini Rajendra Uttekar, who owns a small beauty parlour in Thane, who had accepted a card payment of Rs 510.