1) Visit the income tax department’s e-filing portal and click on “Instant PAN through Aadhaar” section under “Quick Links” on the left side.

2) Click on “Get New PAN” on the new page.

3) Enter your Aadhaar number for allotment of new PAN card and the Captcha code to generate an OTP on your Aadhaar-linked mobile phone.

4) Validate OTP.

5) Validate Aadhaar details.

6) You will have an option to validate your email id as well for PAN card application.

7) The e-KYC data of that Aadhaar number is exchanged with the Unique Identification Authority of India(UIDAI) after which you will be allotted an instant e-PAN. The entire process is not supposed to take more than 10 minutes.

8) You can download your PAN in pdf format by submitting the Aadhaar number at “Check Status/ Download PAN“. You will also get the PAN in PDF format by your email, if your email-id is registered with Aadhaar database.