Reserve Bank of India said that it is working on a digital version of the rupee
Digital Currency in India: The government revealed in its budget session that it plans to introduce a new bill on cryptocurrencies, namely the Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bill, 2021, which will ban all private cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and put in place a framework for an official digital currency to be issued by the Reserve Bank of India, according to a legislative agenda listed by the government. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in the Rajya Sabha on February 9 that a high-level Inter-Ministerial Committee constituted under the Chairmanship of Secretary (Economic Affairs) will study the issues related to virtual currencies. (