Aadhaar Pay, Centre pushes for fingerprint money transactions

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Aadhaar Pay, Centre pushes for fingerprint money transactions

Adhaar Pay, Centre pushes for fingerprint money transactions, Aadhaar Pay is the merchant version of the already in use Aadhaar-enabled payment system.

It works on any android-based phone, with an attached finger biometric device

Andhra Bank, IDFC Bank

Who want to push digital payments among the poor and illiterate in rural areas of the country, the government is pushing to popularise Aadhaar Pay which ensures financial transactions by just using fingerprint. Aadhaar-Enabled Payment System (AEPS) as Aadhaar Pay, which is merchant version of the already in use, will become an alternative for all online and card transactions which require password and PIN.

The app facilitates merchants to take cashless payments from a customer who is only required to give his Aadhaar number, name of the bank (from where the money is to be deducted) and finger print for authentication. Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) CEO A.B. Pandey said Aadhaar Pay works on any android-based phone, even a low cost one, with an attached finger biometric device.

This ensures digital transactions which are cardless, PINless. There is no need of smartphone for the customers, he added. In order to popularise the use of Aadhaar Pay among merchants, the government has asked banks to enrol 30 to 40 merchants per branch so that they are able to take cashless payments from customers.

At present five banks – Andhra Bank, IDFC Bank, IndusInd Bank, State Bank of India and Syndicate Bank — have gone live over Aadhaar Pay and several banks are in the process of launching pilots on the app. A senior official said the plan is to identify Aadhaar Pay transactions separately and to incentivise merchants for long-term sustainability and scalability of the system. As it needs a biometric device costing about Rs 2,000, the government is also working on an incentive model so that cost of the device is amortised over time and the merchants are encouraged to use it.

 

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