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As per July 2017 data, 128 crore sim cards was estimated to be in India and out of those about 33.8 crore cards have been linked with Aadhaar.

With government making it clear that all the mobile numbers that have not been linked to a Aadhaar card by February next year will be deactivated. It has become mandatory now for all the mobile numbers to be linked to Aadhaar card.

Even after Supreme judgement on ‘Right to Privacy’, the Union government is moving with its earlier plan of linking all prepaid and postpaid mobile SIM cards to Aadhaar and deactivating all unlinked SIM cards after February 2018.