What is India's cashless drive all about?

Less reliance on cash: This is a payments service that uses India's national biometric identity card and does away with the need for point-of-sales machines that are used to swipe credit and debit cards.

MUMBAI: India's has launched a slew of electronic systems to encourage its 1.2 billion people to rely less on cash, and adopt digital services to buy everything from groceries to fuel.

Here is an overview of India's cash-less initiatives.