Lok Sabha Question No. 3427 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-03-22
Subject: Aadhaar Enabled Payment System
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: Y. S. AVINASH REDDY, JAYADEV GALLA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3427

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 22.03.2017

## AADHAAR  ENABLED  PAYMENT  SYSTEM

## 3427. SHRI Y.S. AVINASH REDDY: SHRI JAYADEV  GALLA:

Will the Minister of ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  Government  has  taken  a  decision  to  introduce  Aadhaar  Enabled  Payment System and, if so, the details thereof;
- (b) whether all the people in the country have been issued Aadhaar cards, if so, the details thereof, if not, the reasons therefor;
- (c) the time by which this system will come into force; and
- (d) the  steps  being  taken  by  Government to complete the  Aadhaar card distribution  to enable people to  adopt  the system?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR ELECTRONICS  AND  INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI P.P. CHAUDHARY)

(a):   Aadhaar Enabled Payment System is one of the payment systems being used by the Banks to provide service to their customers. It is a part of digital payment  initiatives of Government of India wherein emphasis is being laid on usage of Unified Payments Interface (UPI), Unstructured Supplementary  Service  Data  (USSD),  Immediate  Payment  Service  (IMPS),  Debit  Cards  and Aadhaar,  to  achieve  the  objective  of  moving  towards  less  cash  society  by  adopting  digital payments.

(b) to (d):  Though a target of universal enrolment is being pursued, enrolment for Aadhaar is an on-going process. As on 28.02.2017, a total of 112.26 crores Aadhaar have been generated in the country. State/UT-wise details are attached (Annexure-1). For issuing Aadhaar to the residents of the  country,  Unique  Identification  Authority  (UIDAI)  has  adopted  the  multi  registrar  model under which various State Governments/UT Administrations, Central Ministries, Banks and the Public Sector Organizations have been made Registrars for enrolling the residents for Aadhaar. The Registrars engage enrolment agencies for carrying out enrolment of residents.

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## Annexure-1

## State/UT wise Aadhaar Saturation

As on 28.2.2017

|   S.No | State Name          | Total Population (Projected 2015)   | Number of Aadhaars assigned   | In %of Projected Population 2015   |
|--------|---------------------|-------------------------------------|-------------------------------|------------------------------------|
|      1 | Delhi               | 17,720,573                          | 20,846,334                    | 118%                               |
|      2 | Haryana             | 26,816,977                          | 27,565,296                    | 103%                               |
|      3 | Telangana           | 37,253,813                          | 37,997,961                    | 102%                               |
|      4 | Punjab              | 29,303,888                          | 29,756,585                    | 102%                               |
|      5 | Himachal Pradesh    | 7,252,406                           | 7,359,276                     | 101%                               |
|      6 | Lakshadweep         | 68,149                              | 68,983                        | 101%                               |
|      7 | Chandigarh          | 1,115,584                           | 1,116,319                     | 100%                               |
|      8 | Goa                 | 1,541,892                           | 1,527,883                     | 99%                                |
|      9 | Kerala              | 35,315,493                          | 34,977,329                    | 99%                                |
|     10 | Chhattisgarh        | 27,014,896                          | 26,400,345                    | 98%                                |
|     11 | Dadra &Nagar Haveli | 362,649                             | 354,215                       | 98%                                |
|     12 | Puducherry          | 1,316,320                           | 1,284,128                     | 98%                                |
|     13 | Andhra Pradesh      | 52,229,924                          | 50,722,016                    | 97%                                |
|     14 | A &NIslands         | 401,882                             | 389,333                       | 97%                                |
|     15 | Jharkhand           | 34,869,720                          | 33,778,892                    | 97%                                |
|     16 | Uttarakhand         | 10,700,897                          | 10,308,862                    | 96%                                |
|     17 | Maharashtra         | 118,861,427                         | 111,570,155                   | 94%                                |
|     18 | Tripura             | 3,882,999                           | 3,643,270                     | 94%                                |
|     19 | Karnataka           | 64,660,412                          | 60,236,826                    | 93%                                |
|     20 | Madhya Pradesh      | 76,789,374                          | 71,468,080                    | 93%                                |
|     21 | Gujarat             | 62,100,000                          | 57,101,842                    | 92%                                |
|     22 | Sikkim              | 642,776                             | 589,595                       | 92%                                |
|     23 | Tamil Nadu          | 76,304,287                          | 68,617,594                    | 90%                                |
|     24 | West Bengal         | 96,622,186                          | 85,733,856                    | 89%                                |
|     25 | Rajasthan           | 72,583,213                          | 63,891,456                    | 88%                                |
|     26 | Odisha              | 44,369,413                          | 38,876,522                    | 88%                                |
|     27 | Uttar Pradesh       | 211,105,381                         | 175,142,905                   | 83%                                |
|     28 | Daman &Diu          | 256,937                             | 206,419                       | 80%                                |
|     29 | Bihar               | 109,798,353                         | 85,016,105                    | 77%                                |
|     30 | Manipur             | 2,878,911                           | 1,958,818                     | 68%                                |

| 31    | Jammu Kashmir     | 13,273,505    | 8,877,651     | 67%   |
|-------|-------------------|---------------|---------------|-------|
| 32    | Arunachal Pradesh | 1,462,443     | 932,864       | 64%   |
| 33    | Mizoram           | 1,154,010     | 657,939       | 57%   |
| 34    | Nagaland          | 2,094,963     | 1,151,075     | 55%   |
| 35    | Meghalaya         | 3,135,150     | 278,906       | 9%    |
| 36    | Assam             | 32,968,997    | 2,147,968     | 7%    |
| TOTAL | TOTAL             | 1,278,229,800 | 1,122,553,603 | 87.8% |