New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs Wednesday gave its approval to the fifth phase of the Unique Identification (UID) scheme for undertaking enrolment in the four states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand.

With this, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has been given the target of generation of 100 crore Aadhaar cards by 2015, an official statement said. This would include UID numbers issued under the National Population Register process in 12 states/union territories allocated to it.