Around 1.7 million people have enrolled for the Aadhaar, or the Unique Identification Authority of India (UID) card, in Himachal Pradesh.
Out of this, 700,000 cards have already been issued.
This was stated by Rajwant Sandhu, state chief secretary on Thursday at a state-level bankers committee meeting here.
She urged banks to issue UID-enabled smart cards as a prospective model so that financially excluded people could be brought into the formal banking fold.
Sandhu said banks have disbursed fresh credit of Rs 2,074 crore to 97,706 units under various activities in the state, surpassing targets by 125 per cent.
“Bank deposits have gone up by 21 per cent over previous years reaching Rs 41,853 crore. Advances have grown by 13 per cent, reaching a level of over Rs 18,492 crore,” she said.
Ajay Kumar, executive director UCO bank, said a total network of 1,500 bank branches were providing a slew of financial services to the people of the hill state.
Of these, 1,220 branches are located in rural areas as majority of the population lives in villages.