<p class="title">The government has raised fund allocation for the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) - which issues biometric ID to residents - by 17 per cent to Rs 985 crore for the next fiscal starting April 1.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In the current fiscal, the UIDAI was originally allocated Rs 1,227 crore when the Modi-2.0 government presented the Union Budget on July 5 last year. But the amount was revised downwards to Rs 836.7 crore, according to Budget 2020-21 documents.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The document did not provide reasons for the downward revision but it could be because of non-utilisation of all the funds allocated to the UIDAI.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The UIDAI is the nodal body for Aadhaar, an identity infrastructure for delivery of various social welfare programs and effective targeting of these services.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In December last year, the UIDAI had said that 125 crore residents of India have Aadhaar, the 12-digit unique identity number.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The achievement comes along with the rapidly increasing use of Aadhaar as the primary identity document by the Aadhaar holders. This is evident from the fact that Aadhaar-based authentication services have been used close to 37,000 crore times since inception," it had then said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The UIDAI receives about 3 crore authentication requests every day. Also, it receives about 3-4 lakh Aadhaar update requests daily.</p>
<p class="title">The government has raised fund allocation for the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) - which issues biometric ID to residents - by 17 per cent to Rs 985 crore for the next fiscal starting April 1.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In the current fiscal, the UIDAI was originally allocated Rs 1,227 crore when the Modi-2.0 government presented the Union Budget on July 5 last year. But the amount was revised downwards to Rs 836.7 crore, according to Budget 2020-21 documents.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The document did not provide reasons for the downward revision but it could be because of non-utilisation of all the funds allocated to the UIDAI.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The UIDAI is the nodal body for Aadhaar, an identity infrastructure for delivery of various social welfare programs and effective targeting of these services.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In December last year, the UIDAI had said that 125 crore residents of India have Aadhaar, the 12-digit unique identity number.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The achievement comes along with the rapidly increasing use of Aadhaar as the primary identity document by the Aadhaar holders. This is evident from the fact that Aadhaar-based authentication services have been used close to 37,000 crore times since inception," it had then said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The UIDAI receives about 3 crore authentication requests every day. Also, it receives about 3-4 lakh Aadhaar update requests daily.</p>