Unique Identification

I like Nandan Nilekani, just because he wrote imagining India. The old infosys guys have reached where they want to be. Murthy became a prominent personality in the world. Now it's the turn of Nilekani. He is now on a mission to identify us uniquely. Unique Idea, isn't it. He is from a background where only 1 and 0 exist. He is the authority to number all Indians. We had seen the crude form of this idea in an IDEA ad. In ancient times slaves were identified with their numbers. Slavery in it's old from do not exist now but are we free.
World has become a bunch of numbers. One can't count the array of numbers he has to remember to keep his life going, In result we all are going to become number remembering machines. Another number in addition is going to come, it is the unique identification number. Nilekani will give the new number one day. What about the Alzheimers patients. If we go on remembering the numbers India will become a country of Alzheimers patients.
Why government is thinking in this way. Instead of providing basic human needs they are behind some utopian projects, I don't see any purpose in it. In last union budget government allotted a sum of 100crore for the unique identification project. Now the latest news is that Bill Gates and Microsoft want to engage the project. Sounds good but I feel something fishing there. Infosys, Microsoft and Unique Identification Project. Clearly it's the corporatisation of the project.
I think Nilekani is a good man, he was a good corporate leader, but he hadn't lived the life of a common man, when heads a project for the people (poor people majority below poverty line) he should realize that it is important and should avoid corporatisation of the same because the lion's portion of this country do not understand the corporate language.