More than 87 crore bank accounts linked with Aadhaar

New Delhi, March 09: The Union Ministry of Finance on Friday said more than 87 crore bank accounts have been linked with the 12-digit unique identity number Aadhaar in the country till early March. The deadline for linking Aadhaar to bank accounts is March 31.

"As on March 2, more than 87.79 crore current and savings accounts have been linked with Aadhaar," said Minister of State Shiv Pratap Shukla in a written reply in the Lok Sabha.

More than 16.65 crore income-tax permanent account numbers (PAN) have also been linked with Aadhaar till March 5, he said.

On security features related to Aadhaar-linked financial transactions, Shukla said Aadhaar-linked financial transactions pass through multi-entity check-points, such as bank (AUA - authentication user agency), NPCI (ASA - authentication service agency) and UIDAI (authentication/ biometric data custodian).