Over three lakh 80 thousand consumers and twenty one thousand merchants have won prize money worth around 61 crore rupees at 24 Digi-Dhan Melas across the country. <br/><br/>This was disclosed by the Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad in New Delhi yesterday. He said, government's efforts to give a boost to the digital payment systems and cashless economy have evoked good response from the people. <br/><br/>Mr Prasad said, people from different age groups, occupations and walks of life have taken part in a big way in the Lucky Grahak Yojana and Digi-Dhan Vyapar Yojana giving a fillip to digital transactions. <br/><br/>The schemes were launched on 25th of December last year and shall remain open till 14th of April this year. The schemes are aimed at incentivising the consumers and the merchants to promote digital payments. He said, the common service centres under the department of Electronics and IT has trained 1.94 crore citizens and 5.93 lakh merchants for carrying out transactions through digital payment systems.