MoS Finance says 15 crore PM Jan Dhan accounts are inoperative

As many as 15 crore, or 26 percent of the total 57.07 crore PMJDY accounts, are inoperative, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary said on Monday

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08 Dec 2025, 4:11 pm

New Delhi: As many as 15 crore, or 26 percent of the total 57.07 crore Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) accounts, are inoperative, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary said on Monday.

"The data regarding number of inoperative accounts vis-a-vis women, rural and semi-urban areas that are closed under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY), is not centrally maintained. However, there are about 15.09 crore inoperative PMJDY accounts out of the total 57.07 crore PMJDY accounts in the country," he said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha.

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Replying to another question, Chaudhary said as on September 30, 2025, banks have a total of 7.81 crore KCC accounts with an outstanding amount of Rs 10.39 lakh crore, of which public sector banks (PSBs) have a total of 2.22 crore KCC accounts with an outstanding amount of Rs 4.19 lakh crore.

Under Stand-up India Scheme, he said, banks have sanctioned 2.75 lakh loans amounting to Rs 62,791 crore, of which PSBs have sanctioned 2.28 lakh loans amounting to Rs 51,191 crore.

Further, under Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana, banks have disbursed Rs 2.54 lakh crore till October, 2025 during the current FY 2025-26, out of which PSBs have disbursed Rs 1.03 lakh crore.

Replying to another question, he said the International Monetary Fund (IMF) report on 'Growing Retail Digital Payments (The Value of Interoperability)' dated June 2025 had recognised Unified Payments Interface (UPI) as the world's largest retail fast-payment system (FPS) by transaction volume.

More than 33 crore accounts opened under Jan Dhan Yojna

Further, as per ACI Worldwide report on 'Prime Time for Real-Time' 2024, UPI has around 49 percent share in the global real-time payment system transaction volume.

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