Aadhaar was created to verify the identity of India’s poor. With India still being primarily an agrarian economy, a large section of its population still resides in remote and rural regions. High levels of illiteracy, combined with poor access to government services, meant that this section of the population did not have an official identity. The Aadhaar was intended to give this large subset of Indians an identity for the very first time, along with creating a mega data source of identity information which could then be used to verify identities.