LPG subsidy amounting to about Rs 168 crore for 37.21 lakh consumers has been deposited in Airtel Payments Bank accounts till the end of November. "In many cases, across the three oil marketing companies (IOCL, BPCL and HPCL) where the Aadhaar linking of LPG consumers has got changed in the NPCI mapper to Airtel Bank and hence the LPG subsidy is getting sent to the new bank account in the Airtel Bank," HPCL said in a statement. When contacted, an Airtel Payments Bank spokesperson said, "As per government rules, DBT (direct benefit transfer) subsidy goes to the latest Aadhaar-linked bank account. On Saturday, UIDAI has temporarily barred Bharti Airtel and Airtel Payments Bank from conducting Aadhaar-based SIM verification of mobile customers using e-KYC process as well as e-KYC of payments bank clients. UIDAI also took strong objection to allegations that such payments bank accounts are being linked to receive LPG subsidy.

Source: dna December 18, 2017 20:03 UTC