Stellapps, Airtel Payments Bank partner for cashless fund transfer to small dairy farmers

Stellapps, a dairy-tech start-up, has joined arms with Airtel Payments Bank to allow cashless payment transfers to smaller dairy farmers.

Stellapps has been intently doing the job with dairies and their milk assortment centres to allow direct payments to the bank account of the dairy farmers. Nevertheless, a considerable obstacle for farmers has been the prolonged travel to get to the closest ATM or bank department for withdrawing the payments.

Airtel Payments Bank will now onboard the new lover milk assortment centres of Stellapps as banking points, a assertion explained. With milk assortment centres operating as a banking position, farmers and other residents in the neighbourhood will no longer have to travel prolonged distances.

By means of these banking points, they will be equipped to open up a bank account, withdraw and deposit income, get paid curiosity on discounts, accessibility Aadhaar-enabled payments, get government pension schemes, and make monthly bill payments.

Onboarding of the centres as banking points will take place in a phased method. By means of this collaboration, both of those entities intention to deliver uncomplicated accessibility to formal banking providers to above just one million smaller dairy farmers from about the place, the launch explained.

The lover ecosystem has been piloted in Uttar Pradesh (Varanasi & Kanpur) and Madhya Pradesh (Gwalior). Around one hundred twenty milk assortment centres are now also operating as banking points, the launch explained.