Salaries Through Aadhaar Payment Bridge

Author(s): City Air NewsThe Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia along with the Chairman, UIDAI, Nandan Nilekani and the Chairman, Trident Group, Rajinder Gupta briefing the press on the AADHAAR linked disbursal...

Salaries Through Aadhaar Payment Bridge
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The Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia along with the Chairman, UIDAI, Nandan Nilekani and the Chairman, Trident Group, Rajinder Gupta briefing the press on the AADHAAR linked disbursal of salary by a Corporate Group, in New Delhi on Monday.

New Delhi, January 13, 2014: A project was launched to disburse salaries to employees of a private corporate company leveraging Aadhaar Payment Bridge (APB) in New Delhi today by the Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission of India , Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Nandan Nilekani, Chairman, Unique Identification Authority of India(UIDAI).

Speaking on the occasion the Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, complimented the Trident Group of companies and UIDAI for successful launch of Aadhaar Linked Disbursal of Salary to employees of this company.

The Chairman UIDAI, congratulated the group for being the first corporate in the country to implement Aadhaar linked salary disbursal for its employees. Speaking on the Aadhaar generation, Shri Nilekani added that Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has completed issuance of 54 crore Aadhaar numbers and with generation of about 11 lakh Aadhaar every day, the flagship programme appears all set to complete its mandate of covering 60 crore population in coming months.

The Chairman Trident Group, Rajinder Gupta, speaking on the occasion said has decided to link all their future recruitment with Aadhaar number for demographic verification.

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Monday, January 13, 2014