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description: India is sitting on a demographic dividend expected to become the worlds youngest country by 2020 with 64 per cent of its population roughly 800 million people of working age. But our country cannot become a global powerhouse unless we resolve the contradictions and bridge the gaps that distort our society. The challenge before us is to enable every one of Indias 1.2 billion citizens to realize their aspirations. According to Nandan Nilekani and Viral Shah the only way to do this is by using technologyto radically reimagine government itself.Rebooting India identifies a dozen initiatives where a series of citizen-friendly high-tech public institutions can deliver low-cost solutions to Indias grand challenges. Based on their learnings from building Aadhaar the worlds largest social identity programme the initiatives that Nilekani and Shah propose could save the government a minimumof Rs 100000 crore annually about 1 per cent of Indias GDPenough to fund 200 Mangalyaan missions a year.It doesnt take 10000 people or even a thousand say Nilekani and Shah. All it would take is a small focused team of highly skilled enterprising individuals and a supportive prime minister.
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title: Rebooting India: Realizing a Billion Aspirations
publisher: Allen Lane