Aadhaar usage hits record 146 crore peak in August amid economic recovery

• ByAyushi Ray     |    September 6, 2021

Aadhaar usage hits record 146 crore peak in August amid economic recovery. This is more than the 130 crore population of India and indicates that people who are holding an Aadhaar number could have used it more than once to claim multiple benefits from the government. 130 crore people in India now hold an Aadhaar number at near 100% saturation. The 146 crore authentications done using Aadhaar in August was a nearly 50 percent jump from the months of April and May when the Covid second wave was raging in the country and only 96.6 crore authentications were reported in each of those two months.

In July this year, the country had seen a high of 137 crore Aadhaar-based authentications while the highest figure earlier was 120 crore authentications reported in May, 2020. “This is one key matrix to show that the country is recovering from the Covid pandemic and the second wave and people are using Aadhaar in big numbers to claim government benefits,” a senior government official told News18. The data also shows e-KYC based authentications using Aadhaar separately in which paper documents does not need to be shown by a citizen. E-KYC authentications also hit a record high of 16.3 crore in August, up nearly three times from 5.3 million in May.

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