Amar Jain 1023 days ago

Telecom companies are happily doing this, and many times the store staff is not even aware, or sometimes there are target pressures, because the app to verify Aadhaar from telecom companies has a small box, which must be unticked if you do not want to open the bank / wallet account.

When I verified my Aadhaar at Peninsula Corporate Park Airtel store, exactly the same happened in my case as well.

While I wrote to the Governor desk of RBI, UIDAI CEO, and Airtel Payments Bank about this violation, no authority took any action, except the Airtel Payments Bank calling me to state that if you do not want the account, we will close it. And exactly that was done.

I had clearly written to RBI that for opening a payments bank account and for telecom verification purposes, the interfaces should be different given that payments bank is a separate entity and telecom company is a separate entity, so that even out of lack of awareness, no store ends up opening accounts of consumers. But since the blessings of the authorities continued for so long despite complaints, it kept on going.

While I am not against Aadhaar at all, however misuse by companies which are offering various services under various heads needs to stop for the benefits of Aadhaar to be actually seen. Otherwise, these incidents will continue to happen.

Regards,

Amar Jain

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