Nilekani resigns Infy to join cabinet
Friday, June 26, 2009

Nandan Nilekani, will resign as co-chairman and board member of Infosys Technologies Ltd, who has been assigned the cabinet rank as chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India.

He will lead the government's ambitious project to implement the Unique Identification Scheme which has been earmarked Rs 100 crore in the interim budget of 2009-10.

The project is aimed with providing a unique identification number for all the citizens of the country, similar to the social security number in the US. To start with this will be issued to all voters in the present electoral roll.
--MP