Aadhaar has come into existence to facilitate direct benefit transfers to eligible recipients of state and national level welfare schemes. This is necessary be

Aadhaar has come into existence to facilitate direct benefit transfers to eligible recipients of state and national level welfare schemes. This is necessary because of massive corruption in distribution of wealth in such schemes, where the actual beneficiary gets just 20 bucks or so for very 100 bucks allotted by the govt. It has slowly transformed into an identity in itself, which is wrong. However, with 1.5 billion people, what other alternative is there? Any and all solutions end up looking like a centralized identity system.