The report recognises India as one of the top 10 improvers in this year’s assessment, for the second successive time. India is the only large country this year to have achieved such a significant improvement.

“I think…now that we are evolving as an economy, where all regulation needs to be relaxed or needs to be altered depending on the ground situation, I think this would be quite useful in the whole process,” he said.

The Supreme Court had last month upheld the Constitutional validity of Aadhaar, the 12-digit biometric-based unique identity number, but restricted its use by private entities like telecom operators for verifying the identity of mobile phone users 

The Court struck down down section 57 of Aadhaar Act  preventing  the use of Aadhaar number for establishing the identity of an individual for any purpose, whether by the State or any body corporate or person. “Minimal demographic & biometric data of citizens are collected by the UIDAI for Aadhaar enrolment. Aadhaar number given to a person is unique & can’t go to any other person” said the SC. Now, Aadhaar cannot be mandatory for mobile connections but is maded mandatory for Income Tax returns.