Devotees will soon be able to make contactless offerings and other charitable payments at some 536 Hindu temples across India using a QR code-based payment system being piloted by the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department.
“Many devotees are comfortable with e-payments and we keep getting requests for provision of such facilities in temples. It will allow them to make advance payments,” a department official told The Hindu newspaper.
“The National Informatics Centre has developed the software for this and it has been customised for each temple.”
Hindu temples pilot contactless payments in India was written by Tom Phillips and published by NFCW.