Aadhaar enrolments has crossed 100 crore mark. In a press conference at New Delhi today, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said Aadhaar use has stopped leakages and led to substantial saving of government money. <br/><br/>Large number of government services are being linked to Aadhaar. He assured that no core biometric information shall be shared with anyone for any reason whatsoever. Mr. Prasad said biometric data will not be used for any purpose other than Aadhaar generation and authentication. <br/><br/>He said there has been a lot of appreciation for Aadhaar on the global stage and world bank report also appreciate it. He said today nearly 74 crore adults in India have Aadhaar which is 93 percent of adult population. More than 6 lakh people are being added to the Aadhaar platform every day. <br/><br/>The government has already passed the Aadhaar Bill, providing statutory backing to the scheme. The government wants to complete the enrolment process under the unique identification project at the earliest to use Aadhaar as a tool to provide subsidies and benefits under various social sector schemes directly.<br/><br/>Under the Direct Benefit Transfer scheme, benefits like scholarships, pension and cooking gas subsidy are directly transferred to beneficiaries' bank accounts. The government intends to use Aadhaar as a tool to authenticate the identity of people to weed out bogus beneficiaries and plug leakages in spending on various social sector schemes.

Aadhaar enrolments are set to cross the 100 crore mark in a couple of days, a development which will boost the government's plan to provide subsidies and benefits under various social sector schemes directly.<br/><br/>As per the website of Unique Identification Authority of India, which is implementing the Aadhaar project, 99.91 crore is the total number of Aadhaars issued as on date. <br/><br/>Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad will hold a press conference today to announce the 100 crore mark of Aadhaar enrolments.<br/><br/>The government has already passed the Aadhaar Bill, providing statutory backing to the scheme. The government wants to complete the enrolment process under the unique identification project at the earliest to use Aadhaar as a tool to provide subsidies and benefits under various social sector schemes directly.<br/><br/>Under the Direct Benefit Transfer scheme, benefits like scholarships, pension and cooking gas subsidy are directly transferred to beneficiaries' bank accounts.<br/><br/>The government intends to use Aadhaar as a tool to authenticate the identity of people to weed out ghost beneficiaries and plug leakages in spending on various social sector schemes.