Overview

• After receiving 1.55 crore death records from the Registrar General of India covering 24 states and UTs, UIDAI has validated and deactivated around 1.17 crore Aadhaar numbers belonging to deceased individuals.
• The myAadhaar portal’s ‘Reporting of Death of a Family Member’ service, launched on June 9, 2025, accepts death registration data for 24 CRS-integrated states and is being integrated with the remaining regions.
• UIDAI’s August 2023 deactivation guidelines mandate at least 90% name matching and 100% gender matching between death records and Aadhaar data before deactivation.
• A substantial backlog persists with millions of deceased Aadhaar numbers still active, fueling concerns about posthumous identity misuse and welfare leakage.
• Unremoved records have skewed local Aadhaar saturation rates—exceeding 120% in Bihar’s Seemanchal region during electoral roll revisions.