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Modern economies are centered on electricity, which is also contributing to an increasing amount of energy services. As a result of increased household incomes, electrification of transport and rising demand for digital connected devices and air conditioning, there will be a rise in the need for energy. Residential electricity consumption in India has tripled over the past few decades with houses having access to uninterrupted power supply. This study is conducted in order to understand the determinants of electricity consumption such as income, family size, stock of electrical appliances, size of dwellings and their influence on consumer’s electricity consumption. It also seeks to examine if the consumers are willing to reduce their electricity consumption and are interested in shifting to renewable energy resources considering the costs involved in shifting to more sustainable energies. Due to the nature of power, which is invisible from the moment it was discovered, as well as consumer attitudes and behavior, saving electricity may appear to be a challenging undertaking. However, if the consumer acquires a basic understanding of what electricity is, how it is utilized, and, more significantly, how energy is wasted, the problem might become very simple. This will make consumers more aware of wasteful electricity use and perhaps encourage them to modify their daily consumption of electricity.

India is moving quickly towards its dream of ‘Digital India’ to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. As a result, mobile penetration in India is creating records every year in the global market. Simultaneously the social media platforms are pulling mobile users towards its attractive content to mint money. Is growing mobile usage a real indicator of digital India? Do these smartphones are really making their users smart enough? The growing market for smartphones is a positive indicator for growth in communication networks but it is also hard to ignore the impact of smartphones on mental health and cyber theft. Therefore, this study was designed to find out not only the usage of smartphones among youth but also their impact on their mental health and perceptions towards cyber security. A mixed methodology was adopted to meet the set objectives. The study reveals that there is a huge usage of smartphones among youth and they all are aware about its effects on their mental health and threats to cyber security, but they are not able to resist using mobile phones daily as it has become part of their life, and they lack cyber security knowledge though they are aware of cybercrimes in society. So, it is important to understand that digital India is not about smartphones and technology but it is about producing smart Individuals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In any economy, money is said to be the life blood. With the advent of internet, smartphones and other digital technologies has made cash transactions simpler and faster. In the current scenario most of the transactions were made cashless and in future physical form of currencies will no longer be a king. There are different medium introduced to carry out cashless transactions. Despite the rise of digital payments there is also an increase in the security concerns. Digital payments are bound to have security issues which might hinder the growth of digital payments. Hence, this paper helps to identify the consumers' perception on cashless transactions, factors influencing cashless transactions and also identify the level of awareness of the consumers concerning the information securities. The findings reveal that the majority of the consumers prefer credit/debit card has the most comfortable mode of payment followed by mobile wallets. Privacy and security, convenience were the factors which influences consumers towards cashless transactions and it was also found that consumers has enough awareness on the information security in cashless transactions. Therefore, digital payments will takes a long time to become key payment option but this might benefit the economy in the near future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]