Many of you will have a PVC Aadhar card. Many people must have also ordered it. The specialty of the PVC Aadhar card is that it is made of plastic and will not be damaged by water. Apart from this, it will not tear like paper.

The government charges Rs 50 from Aadhar card holders to order PVC Aadhar card. A few days after ordering, PVC Aadhar is delivered to the address given by the people. Now a big disclosure has been made about this PVC Aadhar card.

Information received from RTI

RTI activist Neeraj Rajoria had filed an RTI and asked how much revenue the government gets from PVC Aadhar cards, in response to which the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) said that between 01.04.2024 to 28.02.2025, a total of 1,20,29,756 PVC Aadhar cards have been issued, from which the government has received revenue of Rs 60,14,87,800.

The government has not given the data for each year, but based on this data, it can be said that in the last five years, the government has earned more than Rs 300 crore from PVC Aadhaar cards alone. The RTI activist has demanded the government make PVC Aadhaar cards free of cost. Apart from this, he has also demanded the opening of more Aadhaar centers.

The PVC Aadhaar card was launched in 2020

Let us tell you that UIDAI launched the PVC Aadhaar card in October 2020. It is a plastic card that comes with Aadhaar card information, which looks like an ATM card. You can get PVC Aadhaar card delivered to your home by ordering it for Rs 50 from the official website of UIDAI. PVC Aadhaar card is also fully valid like the normal Aadhaar card.

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