These are troubled times. The stock market is yet to stabilize with all the beating it took the last year. Business assignments are tough to find, existing clients have not yet opened out their intention on further assignments & newer opportunities have become increasingly challenging to spot. The rains are playing truant. Its almost the end of June, and in a -raining at the drop of the hat- city like Bangalore, this month we have hardly had 4 days of rain. Yes, so all around there’s been an air of desperation.
To such a morning we all woke up to the newspapers screaming of the appointment of Mr. Nilekani by the Govt to head the Unique Identification Programme. Its such a heartening news to hear, not because we heard of this project (this project was due atleast 5 years ago); but to the fact that our PM has shown yet again seriousness on governmental issues. We all are most used to new schemes being announced, new commissions being drawn, new plans being laid out. However with Mr. Nilekani, accepting this role, convinces us the masses that he will do whatever it takes to get the project doing. I am sure Mr. Nilekani would not have decided stepping out of Infosys unless he would have put forth his conditions of engagement. How many of the many such other projects can we be sure of being managed this way? It is quite wishful thinking the Government now decides to engage more of such people to lead our developmental framework. We all know how badly we need some serious revamping of our judicial system.
This move comes in after we saw the successful intervention in riddling Satyam of its trouble atleast partially, and it bolsters our hope of developmental governance, it looks like we have an able leader who is finding his way out to be accountable to the people who have given him the mandate.
