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FreeCharge Announces Additional Incentives for Digital Payments

The Ministry of Finance had yesterday announced a 0.75% discount on digital payments at fuel stations, now Freecharge has added more to it.

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Adeesh Sharma
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The Ministry of Finance had yesterday announced a 0.75% discount on digital payments at fuel stations and a 10% discount at the toll plazas for digital payments.

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FreeCharge is accepted at more than 25 utility companies covering cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Jaipur, Indore, Nagpur, Noida, Bhopal, Jodhpur, Ajmer, Jamshedpur, Bhagalpur, Jabalpur, Bodhgaya and in states and union territories like  Chattisgarh, Meghalaya, Tripura, Telangana and Daman & Diu. FreeCharge users in these areas will get cashback when they pay their electricity bills using FreeCharge.

In addition, FreeCharge had recently announced that food & beverage payments on its platform had grown 12 times in the past one month. To thank its users, it announced 25% cashback on food orders placed through Zomato, Foodpanda and Swiggy and paid through FreeCharge. Users will also get a 10% cashback on 3G data and prepaid recharges done through the FreeCharge wallet.

FreeCharge, is accepted at all the touchpoints identified by the government to move towards a less cash economy. FreeCharge recently announced its national level partnership with all the three major oil marketing companies including IOCL, HPCL and BPCL, which will cover more than 53,000 petrol pumps across India. Freecharge also recently announced going live at various toll expressways including the Yamuna expressway, Badarpur-Faridabad toll and shared plans to go live across 500 others toll points by January 2017.

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