Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana

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Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY)
PM Modi launches the " Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana"
Motto	Mera Khata Bhagya Vidhata
Type of project	Economic
Country	India
Prime Minister(s)	Narendra Modi
Ministry	Finance
Key people	Nirmala Sitharaman
Launched	28 August 2014; 9 years ago (2014-08-28)
Status	Active
Website	www.pmjdy.gov.in

Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (transl. Prime Minister's Public Finance Scheme) is a financial inclusion program of the Government of India open to Indian citizens (minors of age 10 and older can also open an account with a guardian to manage it), that aims to expand affordable access to financial services such as bank accounts, remittances, credit, insurance and pensions. This financial inclusion campaign was launched by the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi on 28 August 2014.^[1] He had announced this scheme on his first Independence Day speech on 15 August 2014.

Run by Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance, under this scheme 15 million bank accounts were opened on inauguration day.^[2][3] The Guinness Book of World Records recognized this achievement, stating: "The most bank accounts opened in one week as a part of the financial inclusion campaign is 18,096,130 and was achieved by the Government of India from August 23 to 29, 2014".^[4] By 27 June 2018, over 318 million bank accounts were opened and over ₹792 billion (US$12 billion) were deposited under the scheme.^[5]