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About 88% Wage Payment Made Through ABPS Till May 2023: Data
NPCI data shows that there is a higher success percentage to the extent of 99.55 per cent or above where the Aadhaar is enabled for DBT
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About 88 per cent of the wage payment has been made through Aadhaar Payments Bridge (APB) system till May 2023, said the Ministry of Rural Development on Saturday.
Citing National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) data, the ministry in a statement said that data shows that there is a higher success percentage to the extent of 99.55 per cent or above where Aadhaar is enabled for direct benefit transfer (DBT). In the case of Account-based payment such success is about 98 per cent.
Under Mahatma Gandhi NREGS, ABPS is in use since 2017. After the almost universal availability of the Aadhaar number to every adult population, now Government of India decided to extend ABPS for beneficiaries under the scheme.
Out of the total 14.28 crore active beneficiaries, the Aadhaar has been seeded for 13.75 crore. Against these seeded Aadhaar, a total of 12.17 crore Aadhaar have been authenticated and 77.81 per cent are now already eligible for ABPS. In the Month of May 2023, about 88 per cent of the wage payment has been made through ABPS.
As per UIDAI, more than 98 per cent adult population is having Aadhaar number. In case an individual needs an Aadhaar number, she or he can get it by visiting the appropriate agency or nearby Aadhaar centre.
The ministry added that states have been requested to organise camps and follow up with beneficiaries to achieve 100 per cent ABPS. The ministry has made it clear to all the states that the beneficiary who comes for work should be requested to provide the Aadhaar number but will not be refused work on this basis.
"If a beneficiary does not demand for work, in such case her/his status about eligibility for ABPS does not affect the demand for work. Job cards cannot be deleted on the basis of the reason that the worker is not eligible for ABPS," it added.