The traditional handicrafts industries of India are textiles, woodwork, ivory, stone cutting, leather, fragrance wood, metalwork, and jewellery. The village artisans such as potters, weavers, smiths produced articles and utensils.
The two methods to reduce the usage of the paper currency are as follows:
Use of digital payment options: By using digital transactions, the use of paper money can be decreased, as well as the difficulty of accurate payments during periods of money scarcity can be solved.
Use of plastic money or plastic bank cards: This refers to bank debit and credit cards that are used to make payments using swiping technology.
In the situation of a pandemic, these two strategies have reduced the use of paper currency.