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The centre has declared that Aadhaar card will be mandatory for opening new bank accounts and for transactions above Rs. 50,000. All existing account holders will also have to submit their Aadhaar details by 31 December 2017, failing which accounts will be deemed invalid.
[3] [4] Guinness World Records recognises the achievements made under PMJDY, Guinness World Records Certificate says "The most bank accounts opened in 1 week as a part of financial inclusion campaign is 18,096,130 and was achieved by Banks in India from 23 to 29 August 2014". By 1 June 2016, over 22 crore (220 million) bank accounts were opened ...
But the card is mandatory for voting, domestic flights, opening bank accounts, for passport, driving license, firearms license and almost all substantial monetary transactions from car, land to high-value assets and to enter sensitive areas in country (courts, military controlled areas, airports police stations and private residences).
Using the system, funds could be transferred to any Aadhaar-linked bank account if the Aadhaar number was known. It was announced that an SMS could be used for amounts up to ₹ 5,000 (US$59) and for amounts over that a mobile bank app could be used. By this time around 440 million Aadhaar numbers had been issued. [79]
The app is aimed at all citizens of India and offers hundreds of services including payment, registration, information search and application forms. [3] It is a component of the Digital India initiative, intending to make government services available to the general public online and around the clock.
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Lack of computerized records for schemes to be linked to DBT was hindering rollout. The minutes show that out of 39.76 lakh beneficiaries who ought to have been covered under various schemes, only 56% had bank accounts, 25.3% had both bank accounts and aadhaar numbers, but only 9.62% have bank accounts seeded with aadhaar numbers. [37]
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