Whats is in Aadhaar for Rural India

I was very happy reading the news about first Aadhaar being issued to a person in Rural India. Its advantages are best seen when this not only considered as an ID but a passport to avail various benefits and services using IT enabled services.

Its been reiterated many times about the benefits of unique ID and what it can bring to millions of fellow Indians but none of the earlier attempts to create one were successful due to many reasons. We are a country of over 1.2 billion people and any effort to identify and issue a unique ID card is not an ordinary task. My hope this time that the latest technological advances in capturing various dimensions of citizen identity data(demographic, biometric and retina scan) and software tools to compare and detect the duplications of non textual data(Visual) will assure that this card is universally acceptable without doubt.

Benefits of this newly possessed identity can be better served only if we build applications and services that are focused on transparency, accuracy and faster of delivery of them. Adapting such systems will require careful planning, and proper execution. A public private partnership in building these applications may offer better results.