As Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswami says, 'When one vote is cast, the machine takes twelve seconds to reactivate. So the "productivity" of the fraudsters goes down, since you can't just stuff bunches of paper into a box.' The time delay has also helped the Commission figure out when 'stuffing' has happened with a machine. 'If we spot a series where votes were cast every twelve seconds, we simply cancel that result.'
'Firms such as Infosys, were started by people without instantly recognisable surnames. Our success motivated numerous new entrepreneurs,' writes Nandan Nilekani in his book Imagining India.
Nandan Nilekani on how IT modernised India's stock exchanges.
Behind nearly every major shift in IT policy in India, there was an intelligent -- and enterprisingly agile -- bureaucrat.
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