Aadhaar card crackdown hit fake beneficiaries, saved India Rs 90,000 cr
Crediting a "decisive" Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the evolution of the Aadhaar card as a "game changer", Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Sunday said Unique Identity Number (UID) has helped the government save around Rs 90,000 crore in the last few years by eliminating several duplicate and fake beneficiaries.
Linkage of Aadhaar with mobile phone numbers
Two days after the Lok Sabha passed a bill to amend three laws to provide legal support to the government`s decision to allow voluntary linkage of Aadhaar with mobile phone numbers and bank accounts, Jaitley in his latest blogpost said the Aadhaar under the erstwhile Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government was "inadequate" because of its contradictions and indecision. (PTI)
Duplicate beneficiaries
Digital Dividend Report
UPA
Enrolment
UPA legislation
Benefits of Aadhaar
Authentications
Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT)
National social assistance programme
This apart, "58.24 crore ration card holders stand linked. 10.33 crore MGNREGA card holders get wage payment through DBT in their bank accounts. So do the 1.93 crore beneficiaries and other beneficiaries of the national social assistance programme. The Income Tax Department has already linked 21 crore PAN card holders with their Aadhaar numbers," Jaitley said. (IANS)
Schemes
"In most schemes the DBT takes place to the beneficiaries` 63.52 crore bank accounts that had been linked with the unique identity as on December 15, 2018. The total number of subsidy transactions through Aadhaar are almost about 425 crore. The total amount of subsidy transferred through Aadhaar now equals Rs 169,868 crore. (PTI)