Textile major Trident pays salaries through Aadhar card

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

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

Speaking on the occasion, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Government of India Sh. Montek Singh Ahluwalia complimented Trident Group and UIDAI for successful launch of Aadhaar Linked Disbursal of Salary of Trident employees.

Sh. Ahluwalia expressed optimism that this initiative by Trident group would become a role model for other corporate players to follow in coming days ahead.

Use of APB for transferring salary will provide transparent mechanism to check the outflow of cash benefit to the accounts of individual and enables re-conciliation of accounts and ensures that there is no duplication, falsification in transfer of salaries to identified employees.

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