Aadhaar enrolment crosses 1 billion: IT Minister
Communications and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday declared that more than one billion Aadhaar numbers have been generated by the Unique Identification Authority of India in the past five and a half years. "Aadhaar is a mode to reach the poor and needy without the middlemen," he said. Notably, the first Aadhaar card was issued in 2010.