“You can use Indian currency for shopping in Doha”: Singer Mika salutes PM Modi

New Delhi: If you are planning a trip to Gulf countries, Qatar in particular, here is a good news for all the travelers. You don’t need to worry about stocking theose precious dollars or worry about currency exchange at the airport as you can now make transactions in Indian rupees.

Mika Singh, nation’s renowned singer currently on a visit to Doha, took to Twitter today to inform that you can buy/purchase & do all the monetary transactions in Indian currency i.e. rupees.

Posting his video from Doha airport, the singer said that Indian rupees is going global and getting to know that he can buy products in Indian rupees, made his day. He thanked the Prime Minister for facilitating an upgrade of Indian currency at the global stage.

Good morning.
I felt so proud to be able to use Indian rupees whilst shopping at #Dohaairport in the @LouisVuitton store. You can even use rupees in any restaurant.. Isn’t that wonderful? A massive salute to @narendramodi saab for enabling us to use our money like dollars. pic.twitter.com/huhKR2TjU6

— King Mika Singh (@MikaSingh) April 12, 2023

The singer purportedly did some shopping at Louis Vuitton outlet, the world’s most popular luxury brand known for making high-end handbags, women accessories & shoes.

Louis Vuitton products though have limited presence in India, with its purchase limited to wealthy class, the brand is the world leader in its products.

Just days ago, Louis Vuitton chairman & CEO Bernard Arnault emerged as the world’s richest person by joining the $200 billion club. Arnault displaced Tesla founder Elon Musk from the top spot in world’s wealthiest person.

India’s UPI going global

Apart from rupee, Indian digital payment technology UPI is finding big acceptance and was recently approved in countries like Thailand & Singapore. This means that the Indian workers living in those countries won’t need services of remittance agents to transfer money back home and will be able to directly transfer money back home using UPI.

The United Payments Interface (UPI) is an real-time payment system, developed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), which allows fund transfer between accounts via mobile, bypassing other conventional modes. UPI facilities instant money transfer from person to person (P2P) and person to merchant (P2M) bank accounts.