Over 10.97 million mobile numbers were linked in Aadhaar following requests from residents in February 2023, a jump of more than 93% over the previous month.
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has been encouraging residents to link their Aadhaar with mobile number for better and effective communication while availing welfare services and accessing multitude of voluntary services.
“The jump is indicative of UIDAI’s continuous encouragement, facilitation, and residents’ willingness to keep their mobile number updated for availing various services. Nearly 1,700 Central and state social welfare direct benefit tansfer (DBT) and good governance schemes have been notified for use of Aadhaar,” the ministry of electronics and IT said in a statement released on March 31, 2023.
There is a growing adoption and usage of Aadhaar across sectors in India. In the month of February alone, 226.29 crore number of Aadhaar authentication transactions were executed, over 13% growth over January 2023 when 199.62 crore such transactions were carried out.
Cumulatively, 9,255.57 crore Aadhaar authentication transactions have been executed so far by the end of February 2023. While a majority of the authentications transaction numbers were carried out by using fingerprint, it is followed by demographic and OTP.
Similarly, Aadhaar e-KYC service continues to play a stellar role for banking and non-banking financial services by providing transparent and improved customer experience, and helping in ease of doing business. More than 26.79 crore e-KYC transactions were carried out in the month of February.
Adoption of e-KYC has reduced customer acquisition cost of entities like financial institutions, telecom service providers and others. Cumulatively, Aadhaar e-KYC transactions so far has gone past 1,439.04 crore by the end of February.
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