SBI completes 5 mn Aadhaar enrolments

Country's largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) today said it had completed 5 million Aadhaar, unique identification number, enrolments.

This has made SBI the largest non-government registrar in the country clearly leading the way amongst the group (the next best non-government registrar enrolment figures of 55,000), the bank said in a statement.

The bank has used the Aadhaar enrolment programme as a vehicle to reach out to the unbanked villages included in the Bank’s Financial Inclusion Plan (FIP), it said.

SBI has covered over 1,050 villages in 14 states within a period of 6 months, it said.

Going forward, the bank plans to extend Aadhaar enrollment services in a phased manner to its staff and customers at non-FIP centers also, in coordination with UIDAI and the respective state governments, it said.