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Nandan Nilekani

Nandan Nilekani

Articles by Nandan Nilekani

Digital payments can usher in an era of prosperity

Whether it is the coconut seller who accepts payments via QR code, or a luxury e-commerce app, a rising tide lifts all boats.

Updated on Jul 28, 2023 16:57 IST

The three Cs to resolve our poverty of attention

Many people try to get around this by separating their digital lives into work and personal. But these boundaries don’t really help us in controlling our attention.

Updated on Feb 19, 2022 14:03 IST

How to secure India against Covid-19

A research scientist works inside a laboratory of India's Serum Institute, the world's largest maker of vaccines, which is working on vaccines against the coronavirus disease, Pune, May 18, 2020

Updated on Aug 31, 2020 18:28 IST

How to vaccinate a billion people

India has a long and accomplished history of immunisation. But that infrastructure can’t be used because the immunisation that is now required — over one billion, possibly two billion, vaccinations in less than two years — is very different in speed and scale to the current system

Updated on Aug 31, 2020 02:06 IST

The Aadhaar verdict will help us leapfrog to a more equitable society, writes Nandan Nilekani

A woman goes through the process of finger scanning for the Unique Identification (UID) database system, also known as Aadhaar, at a registration centre in New Delhi, India, January 17, 2018

Updated on Sep 26, 2018 17:39 IST

State-run banks must be privatised | Nandan Nilekani

By divesting from public sector banks, and yet devising a way to keep the upside of their future growth, the exchequer can still capture the value that is inexorably being eroded from these banks

Updated on Mar 12, 2018 15:43 IST

Why Aadhaar infrastructure should be opened up for private innovation

Aadhaar has always been thought of as universal digital infrastructure, not just a scheme.

Updated on Feb 12, 2018 16:19 IST

Union Budget 2018: The focus on human capital stands out | By Nandan Nilekani

Purnima Haika , the top scorer in classX at the Eklavya Model Residential School at Rayagada in Odisha. An important initiative in the Union Budget 2018 is the plan to start Eklavya Schools in tribal areas such as the very successful Navodaya Vidyalayas.

Updated on Feb 1, 2018 12:33 IST

How to make businesses GST compliant? Make GST business compliant

The GST system has enrolled close to 10 million businesses onto a single national technology backbone, the GSTN, and already collected over Rs 3 lakh crores in taxes in less than 6 months

Updated on Jan 23, 2018 08:27 IST

Aadhaar is an evolving endeavour, UIDAI responsive to public concerns | By Nandan Nilekani

What delights me the most though is that the Aadhaar architecture is flexible. We should applaud the UIDAI for being responsive to the concerns of the public.

Updated on Jan 17, 2018 03:49 IST

Five ways FasTag can help solve Delhi’s vehicular problem

FasTags can implement congestion pricing. This is a model perfected by London and Singapore. Delhi, especially, with the subcontinent’s most extensive metro network, and yet the 3rd highest density of cars (424 cars per 1,000 people), needs congestion pricing. The pricing itself can be dynamic to affect demand

Updated on Nov 13, 2017 15:13 IST

Demonetisation was a defining moment in India’s journey to a less-cash economy

Visitors walk past a sign for a digital or cashless economy at a Digital Wealth Fair promoting e-payments in Mumbai on January 3, 2017

Updated on Nov 7, 2017 13:32 IST

Nandan Nilekani: young population can either build cities or bring them down

Updated on Sep 29, 2013 09:28 IST

A massive dividend, but can we cash in?

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Updated on Jan 3, 2011 07:53 IST

Getting rid of our phantoms

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Updated on Jun 29, 2009 17:05 IST

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