* The Government 12th Dec 2023 said around 54 crore 68 lakh Permanent Account Numbers(PAN), have been linked with Aadhaar till June 2023.

* In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary said, no PAN is deactivated for the reason of non-linking with Aadhaar.

* The PAN is made only inoperative if it is not linked with Aadhaar. He said over 2 crore people have paid one thousand rupees for linking Aadhaar with PAN during the period from 1st July 2022 to 30th of last month.

* The Minister said 2 thousand one hundred 25 crore rupees have been collected from these people..

Source : AIR