It seems people here are forgetting that in the case of Aadhaar, the real reason for it is the official one, which is in short term, it is to track that the 40,

It seems people here are forgetting that in the case of Aadhaar, the real reason for it is the official one, which is in short term, it is to track that the 40,000 crore (7.2 Billion$) subsidy given to the poor people of the country should reach the right people, right now, the paper and pen system has lot of room of corruption seeking in, and infact thats true, that a lot of the subsidy bill, doesn't arrives in a timely manner to its correct beneficiaries. When the record system would be digitalised, and centralized, it won't be that easy to tamper with the records as it is right now. Additionally, in long term, it will allow the govt to track the implementation of its various policies more precisely. In short it is what the SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER is to the western civilization.