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We need to pay more attention at the bottom of the pyramid, focusing more on growth of large number of people and not the handful. The telecom czar says that while we are setting up the right kind of infrastructure for the next big jump, it is not about economic liberalisation. It is about creating an inclusive society, providing education, health services, and creating more jobs... more
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| Â Â Digital Inclusion: Feature |
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After a lot of discussion and debate, the government has set in motion the UID project. One of the key requirements of UID is to minimise/eliminate duplicate IDs and improve the efficacy of service delivery. A Q&A with Ram Sewak Sharma, Director General, Unique Identification Authority of India... more |
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UID: Step to Include All -The need for creating an identification system that uniquely identifies a person, and ensures instant identity verification is urgent and very important. This would also transform the delivery of social welfare programs by making them more inclusive of communities now cut off from such benefits... more
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Speeding Digital Inclusion -The digital divide is a challenge of both access and the ability to effectively use information and communications technologies. Thus, inclusion can no longer just be seen as having a device and a connection. A report by Team Inclusion... more
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| Â Â Corporate Viewpoint |
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India today is uniquely placed: Its needs for infrastructure, finance and good governance are all putting to test its social, political and economic structures, examining at the same time its growth policies and developmental goals. The government is faced with the paradox of how it should... more
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States Need to be Proactive:
Recent developments in technology have transformed banking from the
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Yogesh Gupta
Enabling Financial Inclusion through Insurance:
Micro-insurance has become a buzzword today, reaching
out in ways not imagined earlier to the financially excluded... more
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 | Unravelling The Power Sector
Enigma
If there is one sector in the country where everyone-policy-makers, the bureaucracy, the industry and the civil society-knows what the problems and what the solutions are it is the power sector. But it is in the implementation of the solutions that ... more Gujarat: An Empowering Example
There are few states in India that can claim to provide almost round-the-clock power to its villages and Gujarat is one of them It is also one of the few states in the country that... more |
| | Â Book Launch |  | Â | Â | Urban India is in focus. From a time when the focus was mainly on rural India, today we have come to a stage when rural-urban development is of equal importance. This was the essence of the discussion on "Urban Agenda: The Way Forward" organized by Skoch in New Delhi recently... more |
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