Lok Sabha Question No. 4695 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-07-22
Subject: PAN Card Holders
Ministry: FINANCE
Asked by: Rekha Arun Verma

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF FINANCE DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4695

## TO BE ANSWERED ON MONDAY THE 22ND JULY, 2019 31 ASHADHA; 1941 (SAKA)

## SPAN CARD HOLDERS"

## 4695: SHRIMATI REKHA VERMA:

Will the Minister of FINANCE be pleased to state:

(a) the total number of Permanent Account Number (PAN) card holders in the country with the details of the number of PAN card facilitation centres in the country, State-wise; along

(b) whether the PAN facility provider agencies are accepting wrong information filled up in application forms;

(c) if so, the details thereof along with the steps taken/proposed to be taken by the Government in this regard;

(d) whether the Government has received complaints regarding new regulations of compulsory disclosure of PAN for transaction of rupees one lakh and more; and

(e) if so, the details thereof with the steps taken by the Government in this regard? along

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE (SHRI ANURAG SINGH THAKUR)

(a) Total number of 46,13,91,168 PANs have been allotted as on 30.06.2019. there are around 30,618 PAN-TIN facilitation centres all over India. State-wise list of PANITIN facilitation centres as on 30.06.2019 is given at Annexure-2'

(b) & (c): PAN application forms  (Form-49A and  Form-49AA) filed by the applicants are being received by the PAN facility provider agencies along with mandatory certified documents of Proof of Identity (POI), Proof of Address (POA) and Proof of Date of Birth (PoDB) as prescribed in Rule 114 of Income Tax Rules, 1962(*IT Rules ) \_

Further; as provided in the PAN application forms, the applicants are also required to make a declaration that what is stated in the application is true to the best of his/her information and belief:

The application with documents prescribed for allotment of PAN under sub-rule (4) of rule 114 ofIT rules are received physically at the facilitation centres of either of two authorized PAN facility Service Providers (SP) situated all over India in urban, semi urban and rural places. The information filled in Form 49A/49AA is verified with the documents enclosed, by the SP. In case, if any discrepancy is observed in the particulars filled in Form 49A/49AA vis-a-vis the documents  enclosed, a deficiency letter is issued by the SP to the applicant and application is further processed only after resolution of such deficiency. along

For online PAN allotment process through Aadhaar based e-KYC mode, the Aadhaar data as per  UIDAI is transferred to PAN data after   verification through OTP sent on mobile number of the applicant available with UIDAI. For other online  modes, the applicant himself has to submit scanned copy of the prescribed documents  directly on the website of the SPs and also submit the relevant information.

As such appropriate checks and balances are incorporated in the system for validation of data submitted by the applicant, extraction of primary data from the Aadhaar data base and online submission of particulars and documents by the applicants so as to overcome any bonafide omission and acceptance of any wrong information:

(d): As per sub-section (5) of section 1394 of the Income-tax Act,1961 read with Rule 114B of IT rules, a person is required to quote Permanent Account Number in respect of 18 specified transactions mentioned at Rule 114B. In the absence of PAN, a declaration in Form 60 is The monetary limits for such specified transactions are different for each transaction ranging from rupees fifty thousand, one lakh; two lakhs to ten lakhs: The said specified transactions and its monetary limits were notified by the Central Government through Incometax (22nd Amendment) Rules, 2015 vide Notification  dated 30.12.2015 with effect   from 01.01.2016. Further; there are no new changes  made in the said prescribed monetary limit recently. Therefore, the question of complaints regarding new regulations of compulsory quoting of PAN of transactions of rupees one lakh and more does not arise.

(e) Does not arise in view of reply above:

ANNEXURE-L

| (Seriall No:   | StateUT                     | Pan Count as on 30.06.2019   |
|----------------|-----------------------------|------------------------------|
|                | ANDHRA PRADESH              | 2,28,75,428                  |
|                | ARUNACHAL PRADESH           | 4,46,025                     |
|                | ASSAM                       | 1,73,70,063                  |
| 4              | BIHAR                       | 2,74,19272                   |
| 5              | CHHATTISGARH                | 67,59,978                    |
| 6              | GOA                         | 10,76,399                    |
|                | GUJARAT                     | 2,55,86,145                  |
| 8              | HARYANA                     | 1,46,45,834                  |
| 9_             | HIMACHAL PRADESH            | 30,15,514                    |
|                | JAMMU AND KASHMIR           | 37,76,510                    |
| 11_            | JHARKHAND                   | 85,77,376                    |
|                | KARNATAKA                   | 2,83,05,122                  |
|                | KERALA                      | 1,38,94,232                  |
|                | MADHYA PRADESH              | 1,76,75,651                  |
| 115.           | MAHARASHTRA                 | 6,27,68,219                  |
| 16.            | MANIPUR                     | 7,90,363                     |
| 117.           | MEGHALAYA                   | 7,05,385                     |
|                | MIZORAM                     | 1,81,872                     |
| 19.            | NAGALAND                    | 4,58,866                     |
| bo:            | ORISSA                      | 91,71,670                    |
| b1             | PUNJAB                      | 1,51,17,033                  |
|                | RAJASTHAN                   | 2,04,40714                   |
| p3             | SIKKIM                      | 2,57.199                     |
| p4             | TAMILNADU                   | 3,08,40,780                  |
|                | TELANGANA                   | 74,38,068                    |
| p6             | TRIPURA                     | 11,32,652                    |
| p27.           | UTTAR PRADESH               | 6,09,41,581                  |
| p28.           | UTTARAKHAND                 | 43,69,711                    |
| 129            | WEST BENGAL                 | 3,63,52,682                  |
|                | TOTAL                       | 44,23,90,344                 |
|                | ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS | 2,31,402                     |
|                | CHANDIGARH                  | 8,94,255                     |
| 3              | DAMAN AND DIU               | 2,48,632                     |
| 4              | DADRA AND NAGAR HAVELI      | 2,41,599                     |
| 5_             | DELHI                       | 1,56,21,280                  |
| 6              | PONDICHERRY                 | 5,34,040                     |
|                | LAKSHADWEEP                 | 18,606                       |
| 8              | OTHERS(DEFENCE FORCES       | 6,222                        |
|                | FOREIGN                     | 12,04,788                    |
|                | TOTAL                       | 1,90,00,824                  |
| GRAND TOTAL    | GRAND TOTAL                 | 46,13,91,168                 |

## ANNEXURE-2

## as\_on 30.06.2019

| Serial No:   | StatelUT                    | Total number of TIN- Facilitation Centres/PAN Centres_ as @n 30.06.2019   |
|--------------|-----------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|              | ANDHRA PRADESH              | 1100                                                                      |
| 2.           | ARUNACHAL PRADESH           | 21                                                                        |
| 3 .          | ASSAM                       | 795                                                                       |
|              | BIHAR                       | 1880                                                                      |
| 5.           | CHHATTISGARH                | 477                                                                       |
| 66           | GOA                         | 183                                                                       |
| 7.           | GUJARAT                     | 1372                                                                      |
| 8.           | HARYANA                     | 876                                                                       |
| 9_           | HIMACHAL PRADESH            | 632                                                                       |
|              | JAMMU AND KASHMIR           | 302                                                                       |
| 111.         | JHARKHAND                   | 455                                                                       |
| 12           | KARNATAKA                   | 1503                                                                      |
| 13.          | KERALA                      | 947                                                                       |
| 14.          | MADHYA PRADESH              | 1761                                                                      |
|              | MAHARASHTRA                 | 4758                                                                      |
| 16           | MANIPUR                     | 51                                                                        |
| 117.         | MEGHALAYA                   | 25                                                                        |
| 18.          | MIZORAM                     | 28                                                                        |
| 19.          | NAGALAND                    | 27                                                                        |
| po.          | ORISSA                      | 692                                                                       |
|              | PUNJAB                      | 1166                                                                      |
|              | RAJASTHAN                   | 2195                                                                      |
| p3.          | SIKKIM                      | 18                                                                        |
|              | TAMILNADU                   | 1713                                                                      |
| b5.          | TELANGANA                   | 846                                                                       |
|              | TRIPURA                     | 85                                                                        |
|              | UTTAR PRADESH               | 3906                                                                      |
|              | UTTARAKHAND                 | 481                                                                       |
|              | WEST BENGAL                 | 1071                                                                      |
|              | TOTAL                       | 29366                                                                     |
|              | ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS | 15                                                                        |
| p2           | CHANDIGARH                  | 59                                                                        |
| 13_          | DAMAN AND DIU               | 15                                                                        |
|              | DADRA AND NAGAR HAVELI      | 6                                                                         |
|              | DELHI                       | 1128                                                                      |
| 6            | PONDICHERRY                 | 29                                                                        |
|              | LAKSHADWEEP                 |                                                                           |
|              | TOTAL                       | 1252                                                                      |
|              | GRAND TOTAL                 | 30618                                                                     |