alt Hacker NewsMy point wasn't that no id was required before Aadhaar. It's that any id from a range of acceptable ids like passports, ration card, drivers license worked.
Post Aadhaar, even though all of those IDs are still legal and acceptable under law, the govt has added so much friction on the non Aadhaar path that in practice those IDs are unusable.
> It's that any id from a range of acceptable ids like passports, ration card, drivers license worked.
In reality different IDs were accepted at different departments and there was no consensus. It was really a pain. If someone took ration card as valid, others wanted another ID. In some states it was even worse.
It is true that the government has indirectly made Aadhar mandatory, contrary to the spirit of supreme court order.