How to fix India

Abstract

There are 10 grand challenges, and they need 10 start-ups within the government, with a crack team of 10 handpicked persons per challenge, to solve the most significant problems. There is evidence that this can be done, as evidenced by two “problems” for which solutions are considered “firmly established, large scale”. These ideas would transform India and realise a billion aspirations.

Does this sound ambitious, audacious, boastful or like it’s a pipe dream? Well, Nilekani and Shah think it is possible to meet these challenges in a timebound manner if we adopt a mission mode and get going within the government, bypassing several checks that a democracy would have — the checks that necessarily slows the process of development. Read more at: http://www.businessworld.in/article/Book-Review-How-To-Fix-India/09-03-2016-91796/