More digitisation cannot cure India's ills, says Harvard's Lant Pritchett

Harvard prof says govt needs to look at implementation bottlenecks, delivery mechanisms

More digitisation is not the solution to most of India's intrinsic problems, such as its inefficient education system or police corruption, Lant Pritchett, professor of the Practice of International Development at the Harvard Business School, said here on Monday. 

In India to address the 14th Indian Policy Forum organised by economic think tank National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), Pritchett said that while greater connectivity and technology-enabled governance has been touted as the panacea for most economic, demographic, and social challenges in the country, it may just prolong the process of finding a real solution.

Accepting that while the