Visiting Fellow Shankkar Aiyar speaks to The Statesman on his new book, Aadhaar. Excerpts:
“'The book was born out of a policy paper. I am a Visiting Fellow at the IDFC Institute and work on public policy. Leaders in the 21st century know what is to be done but struggle to find ways to ge...
Shankkar Aiyar's latest book Aadhaar: A Biometric History Of India’s 12-Digit Revolution is a comprehensive read on the inception of, debates around, and resurrection of the UIDAI scheme. Swarajya carries an excerpt that tells us the story of how Aadhar got a new lease of life under the ...
In this blog post on Ajay Shah's blog, Visiting Fellow, Renuka Sane asks "if the legal foundations on which the Aadhaar operates match up to the requirements of a program that is likely to touch the lives of all citizens of India....
"A program such as Aadhaar, should be buil...
Karthik Muralidharan, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego, joined us at the sidelines of the IDFC Institute Dialogues on Political Economy to discuss designing robust RCT studies and complex government programmes, based on his co-authored Working Paper, "...
Nandan Nilekani, in this article, says "India has a unique opportunity to create a new and alternative credit infrastructure that can provide easy access to credit for millions of businesses and individuals, arising from the convergence of Aadhaar’s recent legislative legitimacy with regulato...
Excerpts from this interview in Mint with Nandan Nilekani, former UIDAI chairman.
Q - Is Aadhaar a lynchpin or part of the lynchpin?
A - It is very important, it is the lynchpin.
Q - Let us move to the private usage that you mentioned. I remember soon ...
This Saturday, Asia Society is hosting Nandan Nilekani, Former Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India, and Viral Shah, Founding Partner of Julia Computing, in conversation with IDFC Institute's Dr Reuben Abraham to discuss their new book, "Rebooting India: Reali...
