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RBI's digital payments index increases to 493.22 as of March 2025
In March last year, the RBI-DPI score stood at 445.50.
The banking regulator publishes the index twice a year, with DPI recorded at the end of March and September for each year. The index indicates the extent of digitisation of payments in the country.
'The increase in the RBI-DPI index was driven by significant growth in parameters viz. payment infrastructure – supply-side factors and payment performance across the country over the period,' the RBI said in a statement.
The RBI-DPI has been constituted with March 2018 as the base period, which was assigned a score of 100. The index has been published on a semi-annual basis since 2021.
The DPI comprises five broad parameters that measure the deepening and penetration of digital payments in the country over time. These parameters include:
· Payment enablers with a weightage of 25 per cent
· Payment infrastructure – demand-side factors at 10 per cent
· Payment infrastructure – supply-side factors at 10 per cent
· Payment performance with the highest weightage at 45 per cent
· Consumer centricity at 5 per cent
Each of the parameters includes sub-parameters, which in turn consist of various measurable indicators.
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