Key Points
The company has announced that people can now use their Aadhaar card to setup an account and one wont be required to set a UPI PIN with a debit card...
As UPI scales to the next hundreds of millions of Indian users, this is expected to help many more users set up UPI IDs and enable them to make digital payments..
Hence, the Aadhaar-based onboarding facility on UPI is provided to make it available to a wide number of users and further financial inclusion...
Users who want to onboard UPI via the latest option will need to make sure that the phone number on their Aadhaar and bank account are the same..
- Download Google Pay app and once you enter the setup screen, you will see the option to select between a Debit card or Aadhaar-based UPI onboarding..
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