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    • Tavleen Singh Tags : politics, Nandan Nilekani Posted: Sunday , Jul 05, 2009 at 0219 hrs

    Why can Mr Nilekani’s huge talents for management not be used to help the Prime Minister end child malnutrition? Why should he not be in charge of a Child Malnutrition Authority instead of a Unique Identity Authority? Even if he succeeds in distributing a billion identity cards will it make any difference? Some estimates put the cost of our new identity card project at more than Rs 1.5 lakh crores. Is this an expense we can afford when half our children go to bed hungry every night? And, besides how will the card work in villages that do not have adequate supplies of electricity leave alone computers?

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    Reality Check need of the hour!By: Gopi Prasad | 20-Jul-2009 Reply | Forward Thanks Tavleen for raking up imp and critical issues concerning aam admi. I have been reading your columns for years, in which you make a valid and candid reality check of Indian state of affairs. Tragedy being, falling on deaf ears of successive govts. How can we have a solution for this? When will the govt realise it is Health, Education and basics needs of population, which they need to address first?
    FollowersBy: Gambhir | 07-Jul-2009 Reply | Forward You missed one more point about people who go to schools in India and they learn to read, write as well they high profile degrees what is the use most of them become high class chamchas, followers no leadership qualities. This is what lacking in our entire national education system.
    Wonderful ArticleBy: Hiren | 07-Jul-2009 Reply | Forward I agree with Tavleen that we have bigger problem like Nutrition, Infrastructure, Education, Calemity like Tsunami and Kutch Earthquake. Not sure, if silicon card would even touch it let alone provide an efficient solution to this mega problems. I wish Tavleen and Nandan work in a same team, may be we have better chance of reaching somewhere.
    of the uneducated by the uneducated for the uneducated By: Dr.G.Srinivasan | 06-Jul-2009 Reply | Forward I think this is a better place to debate issues like this -- of national importance -- anyway our opinions do not matter. The politicians -illiterate and uneducated with a jumbo ego in various permutations and combinations do not heed to the points made by citizens.This started the minute we got independence.The people were not asked whether they wanted democracy and if so what kind of democracy in that they chose the worst form the Westminster type of representative democracy which has landed us in a democracy of no democracy.The important issues concenring the public should be put for a public debate / referendum before anything is being done.To set the priorities as Tavleen Sing has rightly pointed out there are issues more important than ID cards. Of the few by the few for the few is not democracy in as much as of the uneducated by the uneducated for the uneducated does not constitute democracy.To cap it all we have an appointed PM flouting all norms of democratic behaviour.Democracy starts with people right to choose and does not end there.It is a dynamic exercise.
    Dead ideas, dead conclusionsBy: abhas | 06-Jul-2009 Reply | Forward The editor disdains the government projects in the column
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