They noted the statement of the Attorney General that nobody will be denied benefits due to Aadhaar authentication failures because they conceded that in some measure there are problems with it. So once that has been established effectively, the regime has changed from Aadhaar being mandatory to being the primary mode of identification, but not the exclusive mode of identification. So, in some ways it is reading down of Section 7, if you see. You will definitely need to have an Aadhaar but if your authentication fails, that’s okay, you can use something else.

