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.
