Guide to verify if your Aadhaar is linked to your Bank Account

As you guys know that it's mandatory now to link your Aadhaar card with your bank accounts. So a certain situation my mother faced sometime back which made me to write about this topic.

So my mother gave her aadhaar number to the SBI branch officials to link it with her bank account and she got relaxed thinking that she has done her part and the rest is upto the bank officials to take care of. Several weeks later I came to know about this online process to verify if the linking is done or not and I decided to try it for her. After logging in and checking it out, it was displaying me as No account is linked till now and I got confused seeing that, so I contacted the bank officials and came to know that they lost the document which she gave them and even forgot to update the bank account with the details. So, she again gave them the details and sat there and made sure that they update it this time.

This made me think that the same situation many others would have faced especially elderly people. So, I am providing a step by step approach of checking the status online and also through your mobile. Please do this validation guys and if it's not correct, make it proper before the deadline.

Validating Linking Online:

1) Visit the Aadhaar website - www.uidai.gov.in
2) Click on 'Check Aadhaar and Bank Account Linking Status'.

3) Enter your Aadhaar number and Security Code. Once submitted, an OTP will be sent to the registered mobile number.

4) Enter the OTP and Click on 'Login'.

5) On successful login, the website shows whether the Aadhaar is successfully linked or not.

Validating Linking using Mobile Phone:

1) Dial *99*99*1#

2) Enter your 12 digit Aadhaar number

3) Confirm that the digits entered by you is correct

4) On confirmation, it will show you the bank account linked with Aadhaar

Point to be noted:

It will only show the last bank account linked with your Aadhaar card.

Eg - Let's say, you have account in HDFC and SBI Banks and first you have linked your SBI account with Aadhaar and next you went with HDFC, then the online portal will only display HDFC as the linked account.

So, if you have multiple bank accounts, you have to take confirmation from the banks itself that the linking process is done successfully.

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