UID: Game-changer or Hype?

One of the defining attributes of the UPA government has been its almost casual/unaccountable approach to spending public money on “programmes”. UID aka “Aadhaar” is one such programme—costing the taxpayers thousands of crores so far—but with little thinking on specifics, outcomes, and with extraordinary amounts of hype and rhetoric. Sadly, the hype and rhetoric haven’t been given a chance in all these years to be challenged in Parliament or outside, despite calls for it, thus allowing...

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