Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AePS) DIGITAL PAYMENT SYSTEN IN INDIA
Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AePS)
SECOND DIGITAL PAYMENT SYSTEM
- In order to further speed track
Financial Inclusion in the country, Two Working Groups were constituted by
RBI on MicroATM standards and Central Infrastructure & Connectivity
for Aadhaar based financial inclusion transactions with members
representing RBI, Unique Identification Authority of India, NPCI,
Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology and some
special invitees representing banks and research institutions.
- The working group on MicroATM
standards & Central Infrastructure & Connectivity has submitted
its report to RBI. As a part of the working group it was proposed to
conduct a Lab level Proof of concept (PoC), integrating the authentication
& encryption standards of UIDAI, to test the efficacy of MicroATM
standards and transactions using Aadhaar before they are put to actual
use. The PoC was successfully demonstrated at various venues.
- AePS is a bank led model which
allows online interoperable financial inclusion transaction at PoS
(MicroATM) through the Business correspondent of any bank using the
Aadhaar authentication.AePS allows you to do six types of transactions.
- The only inputs required for a
customer to do a transaction under this scenario are:-
- Bank Name
- Aadhaar Number
- Fingerprint captured during
enrollment.
Objectives
- To empower a bank customer to
use Aadhaar as his/her identity to access his/ her respective Aadhaar
enabled bank account and perform basic banking transactions like cash
deposit, cash withdrawal, Intrabank or interbank fund transfer, balance
enquiry and obtain a mini statement through a Business Correspondent
- To sub-serve the goal of
Government of India (GoI) and Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in furthering
Financial Inclusion.
- To sub-serve the goal of RBI in
electronification of retail payments.
- To enable banks to route the
Aadhaar initiated interbank transactions through a central switching and
clearing agency.
- To facilitate disbursements of
Government entitlements like NREGA, Social Security pension, Handicapped
Old Age Pension etc. of any Central or State Government bodies, using
Aadhaar and authentication thereof as supported by UIDAI.
- To facilitate inter-operability
across banks in a safe and secured manner.
- To build the foundation for a
full range of Aadhaar enabled Banking services.
Banking Services Offered by AePS
- Cash Deposit
- Cash Withdrawal
- Balance Enquiry
- Mini Statement
- Aadhaar to Aadhaar Fund
Transfer
- Authentication
- BHIM Aadhaar Pay
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