On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Binand Sethumadhavan binand@gmail.com wrote:
Or, a team of anthropologists discover a tribe of people living in the deep jungles of Chattisgarh. The tribe has a population of a few hundred. What do you do?
Issue them ID.
In a day perhaps 50,000 foreign nationals enter India -legally-. None of them have Aadhars. Do you plan to cover them? Remember, several of them would be in India as tourists or businessmen and would be in the country for only a week or so.
Just like other countries with national IDs handle this issue. Till you are a visitor, your visa or TAX ID serves as ID. Once you get resident status you get national ID like SSN.
Countries like US have already started capturing fingerprints and hand geometry of ALL legal visitors. And its trivial for federal law enforcement to validate an I-90 in minutes because of this system.