{"id":318343,"date":"2019-12-27T07:33:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T07:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=318343"},"modified":"2019-12-27T07:33:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T07:33:20","slug":"125-crore-residents-of-india-have-aadhaar-now-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/125-crore-residents-of-india-have-aadhaar-now-report\/","title":{"rendered":"125 crore residents of India have Aadhaar now: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-303644 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aadhar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"820\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/aadhar.jpg 820w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/aadhar-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/aadhar-768x462.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/aadhar-696x418.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/aadhar-699x420.jpg 699w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/>The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) announced a new milestone achieved by the Aadhaar project \u2013 crossing of the 125-crore mark. This means that over 1.25 billion residents of India have the 12-digit unique identity, the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">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. At present UIDAI receives about 3 crore authentication requests every day, it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Also, residents are more inclined on keeping their details in Aadhaar updated. UIDAI recorded close to 331 crore successful Aadhaar updates (biometric and demographic) till date. At present UIDAI receives about 3-4 lakh Aadhaar updates request every day, it added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) announced a new milestone achieved by the Aadhaar project \u2013 crossing of the 125-crore mark. This means that over 1.25 billion residents of India have the 12-digit unique identity, the statement said. The achievement comes along with the rapidly increasing use of Aadhaar as the primary identity document [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":303644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318344,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318343\/revisions\/318344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}