Salaries Through Aadhaar Payment Bridge

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 , Shri Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Shri 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, Sh. Rajinder Gupta, speaking on the occasion said has decided to link all their future recruitment with Aadhaar number for demographic verification.