Not even a month after cancelling over 11 lakh PANs on account of multiple issuance, the government has now deactivated around 81 lakh Aadhaar accounts, the Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology said.

The cancellations were done under sections 27 and 28 of the Aadhaar (Enrolment and Update) Regulations, 2016.

Regional UIDAI officers have the authority to deactivate Aadhaar numbers.