Which of the following statements regarding the Aadhaar-Based Payment System (ABPS) in MGNREGS is/are correct? 1. ABPS requires a worker's Aadhaar number to be linked with both their MGNREGS job card and their bank account. 2. The primary objective of mandatory e-KYC in MGNREGS is to increase the guaranteed wage employment from 100 to 150 days for all rural households.

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1 only — Statement 1 is correct as ABPS routes payments using the Aadhaar number, which must be seeded to both the job card and an NPCI-mapped bank account. Statement 2 is incorrect; the objective of e-KYC is to weed out fake beneficiaries and plug financial leakages, not to increase the statutory 100 days of employment guaranteed by the Act.

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