BETTIAH, India—A beggar within the japanese Indian state of Bihar strolled by a practice station one current weekday, toting a steel pail for money and a pill pc with a QR code caught on the again.
Raju Prasad started accepting donations through mobile-payment apps just a few months in the past. The 42-year-old mentioned his takings have virtually doubled to about 300 rupees a day—that’s roughly $4, and greater than the common day by day wage for a farm laborer in Bihar, India’s poorest state. Many vacationers now zap over 5 or 10 rupees with just a few faucets on their smartphones as an alternative of digging out their wallets.
