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Andhra Pradesh (AP) government has issued fresh orders on 14 July 2021 for the implementation of 10% reservation for EWS in education and employment. Persons who are not covered under the existing scheme of reservations for SC,ST and social and educationally backward classes, with a gross family income below ₹ 8 Lakh per annum, will get the benefit of EWS reservation.

Union Minister of Finance N.Sitharaman and her counterPart, Finance Minister of Bhutan, Lyonpo Namgay Tshering, jointly launched BHIM-UPI in Bhutan on 13 July 2021 virtually. Now with BHIM-UPI, Bhutan has the first country to adopt UNIFIED PAYMENT INTERFACE (UPI) standard of India for its QUICK RESPONSE (QR) code. It is also the second country after Singapore to have BHIM-UPI acceptance at merchant locations. Bhutan has also became the only country to both issue and accept RuPay cards as well as accept BHIM-UPI.