 "Aadhaar to get statutory status, reveals Jaitley in Budget 2016 speech: Find out why")
New Delhi: Government has decided to accord statutory status to Aadhaar to ensure that benefits of the government subsidies directly reach the needy. “Additionally, as I will elaborate later, we will undertake significant reform including enactment of a law to ensure all government benefits are conferred to people who deserve it by giving a statutory backing to the Aadhar platform,” Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said while announcing Union Budget 2016-17. [caption id=“attachment_2642502” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Finance Minister Arun Jaitely. PTI[/caption] Till date over 98 crore Aadhaar numbers have been generated. Per day average of 26 lakh biometric and over 1.5 lakh e-KYC transactions are made. Aadhaar numbers have been seeded in 11.19 crore DBTL accounts out of total 16.5 crore DBTL beneficiaries. There is already a National Identification Authority of India Bill, 2010, pending in the Rajya Sabha. The statutory status will provide a legal foundation to Aadhaar for expanding its use for a range of developmental purposes. It has been suggested that all benefits, subsidies or services funded from the consolidated fund of India should be through Aadhaar platform. PTI
The statutory status will provide a legal foundation to Aadhaar for expanding its use for a range of developmental purposes, revealed Jaitley.
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