PSU banks express reservation against usage of Aadhaar number for cash-transfers

MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: The government's plan to make the Aadhaar number thecentrepiece of the cash-transfer system is now facing opposition from a new quarter: banks. Several banks, led by the State Bank of IndiaBSE 3.01 %, have expressed reservation against jettisoning their current systems in favour of the platform created by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), which issues the Aadhaar number and wants to make it the basis to authenticate an individual's identity before every transaction in bank accounts into which welfare benefits are deposited.

These new lines of conflict are throwing posers to, and could even delay, what is being seen as UPA's gambit for the next general elections, due in 2014: universalisecash transfers. 

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