Aadhaar authentication transactions have climbed to 2.31 billion in March 2023, against 2.26 billion authentication transactions recorded in February 2023, according to IT Ministry data.
Also, this cards-enabled e-KYC rose by 16 percent as 21.47 million cards were updated successfully in March 2023.
While a majority of the authentications transaction numbers were carried out by using biometric fingerprints, it is followed by demographic and OTP authentications, official sources said.
Adoption of e-KYC has also significantly reduced customer acquisition costs of entities like financial institutions, telecom service providers, and others, they added.
The cumulative number of Unic Identity Card e-KYC transactions so far has gone past 14.7 billion till the end of March 2023.
Updated Aadhaars in March
During the month of March, more than 21.47 million Cards were updated following requests from the residents as against 16.8 million such updates in February 2023.
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