-The Hindu Business Line However, it may be accepted as one of the proof documents if the customer volunteers Hyderabad: The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) has asked insurers to refrain from seeking Aadhaar from the proposer or policy holders. In a circular, the insurance regulator said along with Aadhaar, insurers should not mandatorily seek PAN/Form 60 as part of Know Your Customer (KYC) norms. However, the insurers may accept...
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Aadhaar data to be deleted if mobile customer gives alternative KYC documents, says telecom body COAI
-PTI Government says there is no threat of discontinuation of mobile numbers issued using Aadhaar. New Delhi: Mobile service customers who want to get their Aadhaar details removed from the records of telecom operators would need to provide alternative verification documents, industry body COAI said on October 18. The Cellular Operators Association of India, as also directed by the Department of Telecom, said that the services will not be disconnected during the change...
More »Polavaram is reaping the Jan Dhan benefit -Gunturi Naga Sridhar
-The Hindu Business Line The scheme has made life easier for the people of this Andhra Pradesh village, one of the first in the state to have 100 per cent financial inclusion. But the local experience also throws up a few questions relevant nationally, reports Gunturi Naga Sridhar Fourty-year-old M Ravamma, from Polavaram, a village in the Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh, had a nightmarish experience two months ago. Her husband complained...
More »Aadhaar, fingerprint scan enough to open bank account-Mayur Shetty
-The Times of India MUMBAI: A few weeks after RBI governor Raghuram Rajan stressed on building credit histories of individuals based on the Aadhaar number, one bank has introduced unique identity-based eKYC for opening loan and savings accounts. Axis Bank, which is using payment company Visa's network to access Aadhaar database , will introduce the eKYC facility in around 25 branches next week. The branches will open loan and deposit accounts based...
More »Banks 'distrust’ Aadhaar for cash transfer scheme rollout -Nitin Sethi & Sidhartha
-The Economic Times In what could hobble the government's plans to give Aadhar a key role in banking and a central pin of the direct cash transfer scheme, several state-run banks have refused to bear any liability for transactions done with customers that were authenticated through the unique identity (UID) mechanism. Banks and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had been convinced by the finance ministry to use Aadhar to fulfill the...
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