Overview

• Coverage has climbed from 19 percent in 2015 to 64.3 percent in 2025, extending at least one social protection benefit to 94.3 crore Indians
• Phase I of the Ministry of Labour and ILO project used encrypted Aadhaar to unify records across 34 central schemes in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka and Gujarat
• Phase II will validate additional welfare programmes under the pooled database, with officials targeting more than 100 crore unique beneficiaries
• The 2020 Social Security Code consolidated 29 legacy labour laws into four codes to guarantee formal protections—pensions, insurance and maternity benefits—to organised and unorganised workers
• Digital foundations such as over 55.6 crore Jan Dhan accounts, 142 crore Aadhaar IDs and Direct Benefit Transfers have saved ₹3.48 lakh crore by cutting leakages and delays