Mumbai, Thu Feb 14 2013, 08:59 hrs
Nandan Manohar Nilekani, the technocrat who conceptualised Aadhaar, has been a key player in India's growth story.
The co-founder of Infosys and chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India will interact with a select audience at the latest edition of Express Adda in Mumbai on Thursday. A series of interactions with people at the centre of change, Adda has earlier featured World Chess champion Viswanathan Anand, Financial Times commentator Martin Wolf and actor Aamir Khan among others.
Nilekani will be in conversation with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta and McKinsey & Company Chairman, India, Adil Zainulbhai.
He will talk about issues facing the IT industry and Aadhaar — which has seen its share of controversy — among other things.
He is known to hold the view that reforms and innovation are needed in all sectors if the country has to develop, as he wrote in his book Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century.
Amid the who's who of the commercial capital of the country, he can be expected to share those views.
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Aadhaar will be a tool for social justice
Mukesh | 14-Feb-2013
I am hopeful that all the controversies apart the project will still be a mega success. The NIPFP study has projected enormous savings and mind you those are conservative estimates. The bigger challenge is ahead. Direct Benefit Transfer has to be implemented across the length and breadth of the country.
Registered for NPR received Aadhaar card
TIHARwale | 14-Feb-2013
Registered for NPR received Aadhaar card, no problem. but definitely the fact can be publicised that that registration for NPR is mandatory and they don't issue any cards ( if the person registering for NPR doesnot posses Aadhaar already he will automatically get Aadhaar card). earlier this week i received my Aadhaar card by ordinary post delivered in the letter box but definitely India post can treat this as a registered post and deliver it to family member in the house in case the card holder is not there when postman visits. this issue may be brought to the notice of UIDAI. it is also noticed in the Aadhaar camp office located at C2B Janakpuri inside Voters registration office it has been informed by staff manning Aashaar desk that free forms not often available. ( this a complaint i wish to bring to notice of UIDAI )
best project under govt undertaking turns worst managed
ashish bhargava | 14-Feb-2013
This is the best project from Indian govt. to integrate all services and tracking of individuals tied back to one entity but this project truns out to be the worst managed. Most of the data collection is lost after capturing. Data tampering happen at different levels. Aadahar cards which in country is seen equivalent to passport is sent via india post as normal envelope which gets lost, thus not reaching the end user. Its website has many tracking options of the status but very few gets lucky to show the exact application status. Enrollment process takes multiple iterations for a person if his data is not captured correctly in first time.