Moneylife Digital Team
09 August 2016
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) claims that it has issued 103 crore Aadhaar numbers to Indian residents and almost 97% of them are adults. On the other hand, Ujjivan Financial Services, one of the most prominent names in microfinance segment, says just 77% of its customers have Aadhaar as on 15 July 2016. This is interesting. Because, Aadhaar came into existence under the garb of providing identification to those poor people who do not have any kind of ID. Since Ujjivan operates in microfinance segment, most of its customers are supposed to have the Aadhaar numbers if we consider the claims from UIDAI. But that is not the case.