Finishing touch

While announcing that one billion Indians were registered under Aadhaar, Minister for Communications and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday thanked Nandan Nilekani, former chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India, and R S Sharma, chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, for the success of the Aadhaar project. When asked why he didn't thank the previous United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government that conceptualised the project, he said, "We do things in a better way - achchey se - while they (UPA) only start things. This is why the people of the country have brought us here."