“Savings from Aadhaar can fund three schemes of the size of Ayushman Bharat,” which aims to provide annual coverage of Rs 5 lakh to over 10 crore families.Total subsidy transferred through Aadhaar now equals Rs 1,69,868 crore. “With elimination of middlemen, benefits go directly to bank accounts,” Jaitley said, adding that this is a unique technology implemented only in India. The Income Tax Department has already linked 21crore PAN card holders with their Aadhaar numbers. A total of 2,579 crore authentications have been undertaken till date, with 2.7 crore authentications done daily. UIDAI has the capacity of 10 crore transactions to be authenticated per day.In most schemes, DBT takes place to 63.52 crore bank accounts linked with the unique identity as on December 15, 2018.

Source: Economic Times January 06, 2019 09:00 UTC