India will also be a role model on how to vaccinate a billion: Nilekani

The founding architect of Aadhaar expects the country to have surplus Covid vaccines in the next six months. He also wants everybody to be issued a vaccination certificate

With India rolling out vaccination efforts against Covid-19, Nandan Nilekani, founding architect of Aadhaar and co-founder of Infosys on Friday said that the country will be a role model on how to vaccinate a billion people at scale, speed and in a trusted manner.

“I actually believe that if we do all the right things, India will also be a role model on how to vaccinate a billion people at scale speed, and in a trusted manner,” said Nilekani at ‘Ground Zero 4.0 | Scaling Up’ event organised by research firm RedSeer Consulting. “A lot of the work happening in the