The Aadhaar card has emerged as probably the world's largest biometric identification programmes in the world with the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) issuing nearly 82 crore cards.1 crore = 10,000,000
We haven't been spending as much time on issues of economic development as we have at other times in the past, but India's major ID initiatives are creating a lot of opportunities to lift millions out of poverty.
