Nandan Nilekani assumed his position as the chairman of the Unique Identification Database Authority of India today and started work on the government's ambitious project to provide a single identity number and card to each of the country's 1.17 billion people.
 
Nilekani, who met the ...

Nandan Mohan Nilekani will formally assume the position as the chairperson of the newly formed Unique Identity Authority at Yojana Bhavan, the headquarters of the Planning Commission, in New Delhi on Thursday.
 
Nilekani, 54, will enjoy the rank of a cabinet minister.
 
The authority ...