New Delhi, Aug 31: In a relief to banks, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has extended the deadline issued to banks to ensure a minimum of eight enrollments or updations per day.

As per the fresh communique sent by the nodal Aadhaar body to banks, the lenders have been asked to comply with its directive from the month of November, 2018.

If the banks fail to adhere to the deadline, they will be charged for the UIDAI’s authentication and eKYC services. The cost will be calculated retrospectively, from July to October, 2018.

The UIDAI order also asks the banks to increase the enrollment or updations by 12 per day from January 2019 and 16 per day from April next year.

“Banks who achieve the target of minimum 8 Aadhaar enrolment/updations per day per branch in the month of November 2018 will be exempted from financial disincentives up to October 2018,” the UIDAI said.

In case bank “fails to meet the above target of carrying out minimum enrolment/updation per day per branch, financial disincentive in respect of uncovered branches as on last day of the month will be levied from the month of July 2018 onwards,” it said.

The deadline has been relaxed keeping in view the floods which have devastated Kerala, along with technical glitches faced by bank branches in several other parts of the nation.

Notably, not all branches of the bank have been issued the order by the UIDAI. In April, the banks were asked to set up Aadhaar Kendras in 10 per cent of their total branches. The Kendras were intended to allow people to enroll with the Aadhaar and update their details.

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