229 Crore and Counting: Why Aadhaar Just Rewrote India’s Digital Playbook

India's identity infrastructure growth driver Aadhaar recorded a sharp 7.8% year-over-year growth in authentication transactions in June 2025 at 229.33 crore, an all-time high for the month. The figures, made public by Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), indicate Aadhaar's growing role in welfare delivery, fintech access, and digital public infrastructure.

Key Highlights:

- Record Authentications: June's 229.33 crore transactions are a spectacular leap from 212.7 crore during June 2024, taking the cumulative to over 15,452 crore since the emergence of Aadhaar.

- Face Authentication Boom: AI/ML-driven face authentication accounted for 15.87 crore transactions in June—almost three times the 4.61 crore of last year. The modality has been used almost 175 crore times now, demonstrating its growing popularity on Android as well as iOS platforms.

- e-KYC Momentum: Aadhaar-based e-KYC transactions reached 39.47 crore in June, enabling seamless onboarding in banking, NBFC, telecom, and government.

- Mass Adoption: Over 100 organisations—ministries, oil and gas companies, banks, telcos, and others—already use Aadhaar face 
authentication for secure, touchless identity verification.

- Ease of Living Push: UIDAI officials emphasized the way Aadhaar has made service delivery and digital inclusion possible through a "frictionless and secure" tool for millions.

The rise in Aadhaar usage is a testament to India's acceleration of its journey to a digitally empowered country, underlined by biometric innovation.

Source: Economic Times, BusinessWorld, Times of India