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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

List of Banks on the APBS Platform as on 22 Jan 2013


            As on date there are 39 banks on the APBS platform. This means the respective bank customers can receive funds based only on their Aadhaar number.
          The major addition of the banks was the in January 2013, after the launch of Government of India’s ‘Direct Cash Transfer’, scheme.

          It is good to know that Gramin Banks too are joining the APBS bandwagon. This is important as majority of the beneficiaries are currently located in the Tier IV to Tier VI towns, and Gramin Banks have a strong presence there.

          What is IIN No?
         
          IIN stands for Institution Identification Number. This is allotted by NPCI for banks joining the APBS network.

It is envisaged that the ‘APBS Mapper module’, will store the ‘Aadhaar number’, and respective IIN No. The transaction will be routed to the respective bank based on the IIN against the respective ‘Aadhaar Number’.

At present, it is not clear as to how sub-member Bank customers would benefit from APBS.
           
 SL No
Bank Name
IIN No
1
Union Bank of India
508500
2
Bank of India
508505
3
Syndicate Bank
508508
4
Canara Bank
508532
5
ICICI Bank Ltd
508534
6
State Bank of India
508548
7
Punjab National Bank
508568
8
Oriental Bank of Commerce
508585
9
Central Bank of India
607115
10
Axis Bank
607153
11
Bank of Maharashtra
607387
12
Vijaya Bank
607075
13
South Indian Bank
607167
14
IDBI
607095
15
Federal Bank Ltd
607165
16
Dena Bank
508547
17
United Bank of India
607028
18
Indian Bank
607105
19
Bank of Baroda
606985
20
UCO Bank
607066
21
State Bank of Patiala
606990
22
State Bank of Hyderabad
606998
23
Allahabad Bank
607117
24
Andhra Bank
607170
25
Indian Overseas Bank
508541
26
State Bank of Travancore
606991
27
State Bank of Mysore
606989
28
Punjab & Sind Bank
607087
29
State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur
606987
30
Corporation Bank
607184
31
HDFC Bank Ltd
607152
32
Indusind Bank
607189
33
Thane Janatha Sahakari Bk
607130
34
ING Vysya Bank
607222
35
Tripura Gramin Bank
607065
36
South Malabar Gramin bank
607388
37
Pragathi Gramin Bank
607389
38
Shreyas Gramin Bank
607390
39
Punjab & Maharashtra Bank Ltd
607057

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Aadhaar Payment Bridge System – The heart of GOI’s DCT.


            The APBS was conceptualized by NPCI in the mid 2011, with Reserve Bank of India, according permission to launch it in October 2011. Bank of India was the first bank to go live on APBS, followed by ICICI Bank and Union Bank of India.
            The testing field was the state of Jharkhand.

APBS was built around the Aadhaar Numbers being issued by UIDAI. The Aadhaar number is the common link between the Government Departments and the beneficiary.

The core idea of APBS is to ensure that the Aadhaar number holder receives his/her funds from the Government in the respective bank account. The Aadhaar number holder need not inform all the government departments in case of the change of his bank account number.

The mapping between the bank account number and the Aadhaar number would be via the ‘Mapper Module’, built in APBS.   

In the long run, this approach would result in a) minimal transaction cost b) reduced TAT c) minimal customer complaints d) minimal recon issues.

The present process flow is as follows: -
01) The government departments submit the transaction files to NPCI via their Sponsor Bank between 10.30am to 12.30pm.

02)Around 2.00pm, NPCI switches the transactions to the recipient banks, to the banks as mapped on the Aadhaar Mapper which is a part of APBS.

03)By 3.00pm the beneficiary banks would have passed on the credits to the respective beneficiary account holders.

04)By 5.00pm, the beneficiary banks intimate NPCI the status of the individual transactions i.e successful or rejected.

05)By 7.00pm, NPCI updates the statuses to the Sponsor Banks.

All the above happens on the same day. Initially there is only one payment cycle. Yes, the APBS can handle multiple payment cycle, it is up to the sponsor banks and the government departments to demand more payment cycle, in case of surge in the volumes. 

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