Warning - rant ahead. Aadhar is expensive, intrusive and ultimately futile for the stated objectives. More than $1.5B have been spent on it with more being al

Warning - rant ahead. Aadhar is expensive, intrusive and ultimately futile for the stated objectives. More than $1.5B have been spent on it with more being allocated every budget. For context Mangalyan's budget was $74M. I haven't been able to find how much it has helped save. There is no cost/benefit analysis. It was started as a way to ensure proper delivery of subsidised services to the poor, it has since enhanced its scope to encompass all government services. One needs it for 1) getting a sim card, 2) filing tax returns 3) train journey(for seniors but won't be surprised if it soon becomes mandatory for everyone) 4) school admissions - really kids cannot be enrolled in school without Aadhar with proposals to use the biometrics for 5) domestic air travel 6) biometric enabled POS 7) replace debit/credit cards Somehow this will magically solve all our problems and make us a developed nation by virtue of using a biometric enabled digital tracking service. For a nation of bilion people, even a faboulous error rate of 0.01% will affect 10M people. People responsible for it claim it is secure and hackproof. I am having a hard time trying to decipher if this is ignorance, incompetence or malice or all three mixed in. The current goverment is drunk on power. Obvious comparisons with previous dictatorial regimes gets laughed at. But the signs are there to see - rampant sycophancy to the PM, increased social intolerance, conflict escalation in/with Kashmir/Pakistan, arbitrary decisions like demonetization, moving the financial year to Jan-Dec. For a supposedly non-corrupt government, the sly introduction of clause to remove cap on corporate donations to political parties in the Finance bill is blatant hypocrisy to say the least. For anyone who thinks demonetization was good, just review the government narrative on why it was needed. First it was black money, then terrorist funding/fake notes, then digitization. The very people who lost their businesses/livelihood due to demonetization support the PM and think it was good. When asked why, no idea. Ignorance is strength. Almost all modern governments are guilty to some extent, but this government has totally embraced the INGSOC principles and has mastered the art of doublethink. And the scary thing is, they have succeeded at it. People just dismiss the privacy and surveillance implications of Aadhar as hypothetical scenarios. Anybody who criticizes the government is unpatriotic and a traitor.