Download PDF by Sameer Kochhar: Growth and Governance: Essays in honour of Nandan Nilekani

Nandan Nilekani earned his position as an iconic entrepreneur in India within the Eighties, having co-founded Infosys restricted in 1981. within the post-economic liberalisation period, he cemented his attractiveness as a pioneer within the company and data expertise international, simply as he helped release Infosys into the massive league of world’s IT-enabled prone businesses. He served because the company’s leader government Officer from 2001 to 2007. on the fag finish of his occupation in Infosys, Nilekani wrote a best-selling e-book in 2009, Imagining India: the belief of a country Renewed. The ebook is generally acclaimed for heralding a brand new, idea-based method of meet the current and destiny demanding situations dealing with India. It spelt out the theoretical framework for the availability of a special identification for all its voters as a big step in the direction of placing, what Nilekani referred to as, “human capital entrance and heart because the major motive force of productiveness and growth”.
His lengthy adventure within the company international and his ardour for the citizen empowerment—as proved within the winning Bangalore time table job strength experiment
started in 1999 in addition to enunciated in his 2009 book—made him the usual option to be the 1st chairman of the original identity Authority of India (UIDAI) that used to be being organize via the Union govt to supply citizens of India with a different id and a electronic platform—known because the Aadhaar. Nilekani left Infosys to go the UIDAI in July 2009.
In 5 years, Aadhaar has remodeled India’s method of socio-economic justice and fairness, and have become the lynchpin to the government’s welfare programmes that search to accomplish those objectives. It additionally set the level for a good and obvious mechanism to watch executive programmes, that is an important to chop waste and slippage which will hold economic prudence on the nationwide level.
The authors of the essays during this quantity are finished specialists of their respective fields. jointly, they piece jointly quite a lot of matters proper to India’s current and destiny: economic and fiscal regulations, political and financial governance, monetary zone reforms, monetary inclusion, city improvement, company governance, aggressive markets, foodstuff protection, nationwide defense, public coverage advocacy and data & verbal exchange expertise. the quantity not just deals uncomplicated analyses on those subject matters, but in addition a transparent imaginative and prescient for the future.