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Active student engagement in the classroom is the most demanding task the teachers across the world are facing today. The lack of concentration, decreasing patience levels, boring teaching styles, and easy access to e-content are a few reasons behind this sorry state of affairs. With today's learning environment becoming more and more student-centric, the teachers are required to adopt innovative teaching pedagogies for better student responsiveness, imbibing critical thinking ability and mental presence in classroom. Such innovative teaching pedagogies are referred to as Interactive Instructional strategies. Still there are several concerns that restrict teachers in adopting these methods in classrooms. This chapter brings to fore the interactive instructional strategies for active student engagement in classroom. The chapter also focuses on the aspects that act as a hindrance in adopting these strategies. In addition, an attempt is made to bring about clarity on the usage of best interactive instructional strategies in various scenarios.

Mobile banking in India has witnessed a lot of changes with respect to technological and architectural changes. The continuous rise in the number of mobile banking users is due to this fact that the technological advancements that has restored the faith and boosted the trust of users towards mobile banking and payments. However, in a developing economy like India, where this number of mobile users is expected to grow exponentially, the complexity will also grow as the mobile users expect the mobile banking services to be fast, convenient and most importantly, more secure. There is a scope of improvement with the already existing thing and mobile banking is no different In this direction, the National Payments Corporation of India has initiated a system called Unified Payments Interface (UPI) that further eases the process of money transfer through smart phones and feature phones, thereby bringing this technology within everybody's reach. This chapter further puts insights into the implementation and feasibility aspects of UPI and how it is better than the systems prevailing today.

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