It's new life for me, says Nilekani on the ID card project
Nilekani feels he is beginning a new life and the world around him would be different from what it used to be in Infosys. The Unique ID project | Nilekani quits Infosys
By PTI |
NEW DELHI: IT icon Nandan Nilekani, handpicked by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to create a national database of identity details of citizens, feels he is beginning a "new life" and the world around him would be different from what it used to be in Infosys.
Nilekani, whose appointment marks induction of a competent corporate professional into a Cabinet rank post, said the assignment will be full of challenges as it will require him to interface with a large number of people in the government circle.
"It is a new life for me," he told PTI when asked whether he would miss Infosys, a company he had co-founded 28 years ago along with N R Narayana Murthy, now chief mentor of the IT giant.
Asked how he will cope up with the multi-layered decision making process in the government circle, Nilekani, who resigned from Infosys to lead the newly created Unique Identification Authority of India (UIAI) said he knew it would be a different world.
"I certainly think it is a different world," the 54-year-old IT expert said expressing confidence that his friend Ram Sevak Sharma who takes over as Secretary and CEO of UIAI will help him navigate the Government system.
Nilekani, whose appointment marks induction of a competent corporate professional into a Cabinet rank post, said the assignment will be full of challenges as it will require him to interface with a large number of people in the government circle.
"It is a new life for me," he told PTI when asked whether he would miss Infosys, a company he had co-founded 28 years ago along with N R Narayana Murthy, now chief mentor of the IT giant.
Asked how he will cope up with the multi-layered decision making process in the government circle, Nilekani, who resigned from Infosys to lead the newly created Unique Identification Authority of India (UIAI) said he knew it would be a different world.
"I certainly think it is a different world," the 54-year-old IT expert said expressing confidence that his friend Ram Sevak Sharma who takes over as Secretary and CEO of UIAI will help him navigate the Government system.
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