National Common Mobility Card (NCMC) can be used at all transit locations making all transit payments interoperable with just one card.
The idea of NCMC is from the Nandan Nilekani committee set up by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Nilekani is the former chairperson of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIAI), co-founder of Infosys and non-executive chairman of Infosys.
NCMC will allow passengers with RuPay debit card, issued by certain banks in the past 18 months to be swipe for Metro travel. Key banks among 23 banks who have issues RuPay cards are SBI, UCO Bank, Canara Bank and Punjab National Bank.
NCMC will automatically collect fares with a smartphone, known as the automatic fare collection (AFC) system, acting as an inter-operable transport card.
Bharat Electronics Limited is tasked to make AFC compliant gates.
