Mumbai, September 9, 2026 (Yes Punjab News)
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is preparing Aadhaar’s infrastructure to handle up to 250-300 million authentications a day, compared with around 100 million currently, as adoption of the digital identity platform continues to grow rapidly, UIDAI Chairman Neelkanth Mishra said on Wednesday.
Speaking at the Global Fintech Festival 2026 in Mumbai, Mishra said Aadhaar is currently processing about 10 crore, or 100 million, authentications every day and that the pace of growth has exceeded expectations.
“I am surprised at the pace at which the authentications are growing. So we are now doing 10 crore authentications a day. We are preparing to be 25 to 30 crore,” he said.
Mishra said the number of entities using Aadhaar has crossed 600. He attributed the platform’s growing adoption increasingly to convenience and trust, which enable identity verification at low cost and across long distances.
“For the efficiency of an economy to come up, you need collaboration. And for collaboration to happen at scale, you need trust,” Mishra said. “What Aadhaar has done is it has allowed trust to be established at a distance and at a very low cost.”
UIDAI is also promoting the Aadhaar app as part of its shift from paper-based processes to digital interactions. Mishra said downloads of the app have increased to nearly 60 million from about 50 million a few weeks ago.
The app enables users to update details such as mobile numbers and addresses without having to visit Aadhaar service centres.
Looking ahead, UIDAI has prepared a technology roadmap for the next decade through an Aadhaar Vision Committee, with cybersecurity identified as a key priority.
The authority is implementing post-quantum cryptography to prepare for future threats to existing encryption systems. Mishra said current public and private key-based systems could face vulnerabilities within the next three to five years.
“We are going to work on, or we are implementing, post-quantum cryptography,” he said.
UIDAI is also deploying artificial intelligence-based fraud detection tools, including facial and fingerprint liveness testing, to tackle increasingly sophisticated fraud attempts.
“It is a cat and mouse game. Basically, the fraudsters keep getting smarter, but we are also getting smarter,” Mishra said.
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