SBT will be Registrar for ‘Aaadhaar’ in Kerala

By signing an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) with the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), the State Bank of Travancore (SBT) has become the first bank in the State to be a registrar for the much talked about ‘Aaadhaar’ project . Under this agreement, SBT will bring a large number of customers and non-customers for the registration for  Aadhaar number.

The agreement was signed by Santanu Mukherjee, General Manager (Planning & Development- SBT ) and Ashok Dalwai, Deputy Director General (UIDAI) in the presence of P. Pradeep Kumar, Managing Director, SBT.

The bank has over Rs 11.1 lakh no-frills accounts and has financed 82,000 self-help groups in Kerala. It plans to cover all allotted unbanked villages in Kerala under its financial inclusion plan before March 2011.

UID numbers are generated based on a unique combination of demographic and biometric features of every resident of the country.  Since the biometric features (finger print, iris scan and photograph) of a person are unique, the UID number would be free of any sort of manipulation.

Source: Manoramaonline