Trident Group employees need Aadhaar Numbers to receive Salary, not Bank Account Numbers

            Do not worry, Salary will not be disbursed in Cash. Going ahead, Trident Group employees need not submit their Bank Account numbers to their Accounts/HR Department to receive their Salaries and other monetary benefits.

            Submission of Aadhaar numbers will be sufficient to receive the salaries.

            In a first of its kind, Trident Group is the first corporate in our country to adopt Aadhaar payment bridge (APB), for disbursement of salaries.

            The soft launch of the project of the project was done recently in New Delhi by Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, and Nandan Nilekani, Chairman, Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). Rajinder Gupta, Chairman Trident Group was also present on the occasion

Trident Group is on the path of becoming one of the Largest Integrated Home Textile Manufacturing Facilities in the World.

The major benefits Trident Group foresee out of the Aadhaar numbers is in

·         saving verification cost

·         weed out fake data

APB facilitates seamless transfer of payments to Aadhaar Enabled Bank Account (AEBA). It is a payment gateway platform created by National Payments Corporation of India and is used by the government for direct transfer of certain government benefits.

Salary of employees of Trident Group has been transferred to their Aadhaar linked bank accounts leveraging Aadhaar Payment Bridge (APB).

Chairman Trident Group, Rajinder Gupta, informed that Trident has decided to link all their future recruitment with Aadhaar number for demographic verification.

Meanwhile Nandan Nilekani, chairman UIDAI welcoming Trident group in UIDAI ecosystem, congratulated the group for being the first corporate in the country to implement Aadhaar linked salary disbursal for its employees. This technology platform with advantage of de-duplication would be increasingly used by private sector and would create innovative applications for its use in more efficient manner.

Canara Bank Aadhaar Seeding – what do you prefer? Traditional or Modern?

                The traditional way to seed your Aadhaar Number into your Canara Bank account is to visit any Canara Bank branch.

                However, if you do not have the time to visit the Branch, Canara Bank allows you to seed your Aadhaar number via their website too.

                The bank had earlier launched four alternate channels for Aadhaar seeding, empowering the customers to request Aadhaar seeding from the comfort of their home or office without having to visit the branch.

According to R. K. Dubey, Chairman and Managing Director, Canara Bank, “The bank is the first to launch such a self-check facility for the customers. The facility offers Aadhaar seeding without having to visit the branch.”

The customer has to simply key-in details, such as account number and customer ID. The system checks whether the Aadhaar number is available in the bank’s server.

If yes, it informs the customer about its presence. If no, it prompts the customer to provide Aadhaar number through simple steps. In a matter of few minutes the customer’s Aadhaar seeding request is taken.

The customer can simply SMS the Aadhaar number along with bank account number to get his/her Aadhaar linked to the bank account. Another option is to call the bank’s call centre. All the requests are centrally processed and on successful seeding of the Aadhaar number, an SMS is sent to the customer.

The web facility is available only for Canara Bank’s customers who have been registered for mobile banking. This is because, an OTP (One Time Password) is sent for validation of the customer’s mobile number. 

Andhra Bank – Aadhaar Seeding – Ways and Means

            Apart from the usual Branch channel, Andhra Bank customers can seed their Bank Account with Aadhaar Number via the alternate channels mode.

The following channels are available to submit AADHAAR seeding request:

Internet Banking: This is available Only for Retail Internet Banking Customer’s.

• Customer has to login to Internet Banking using his/her User ID and Password.
• Click on the link in the home page “Registration of Aadhaar Number in Internet Banking “.
• Enter and confirm the 12 digit Aadhaar number in the respective fields.
• Select the Savings account for which Aadhaar number is to be linked.
• To know the status about Linking and Rejection of Aadhaar number click on "Inquiry"

Andhra Bank ATMs:

• Customer to inserts ATM/Debit card in any Andhra Bank ATM and selects AADHAAR registration option available under Services category.
• ATM will prompt the customer to enter AADHAAR number twice.
• On completion, customer will receive receipt of seeding the request.

Using SMS:

• This facility is enabled only for Andhra Bank customer’s registered for mobile alerts.
• Customer to send an SMS to the 56161 the AADHAAR request as per below format. The syntax for sending the SMS is given below :
• AADHAAR 15 digit Bank Account Number 12 digit AADHAAR Number where "AADHAAR" is the keyword for sending the message.

 On successful linking / delinking of AADHAAR number to the customer account though any channel, an SMS alert will be sent to the customer’s registered mobile number with the Bank.

It is to be noted that Aadhaar Seeding Request’s will be processed by Andhra Bank subject to satisfactory verification of AADHAAR credential.