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Key takeaways from our interview with @NandanNilekani
"It's entirely possible that by January or so, we will have at least one vaccine in India, and it will be pre produced. Need a very giant digital system to administer vaccine in India. https://twitter.com/ETNOWlive/status/1327159790536069121
"It's entirely possible that by January or so, we will have at least one vaccine in India, and it will be pre produced. Need a very giant digital system to administer vaccine in India. https://twitter.com/ETNOWlive/status/1327159790536069121
It's very, very urgent. 2.6 billion doses of intramuscular vaccines in two years. is an extraordinarily complex and sophisticated task. And without digital orchestration, I don't see Frankly, I don't know how I would do it."
I think India has done a tremendous job in child immunization and in polio vaccination. But the focus has been infants, and pregnant mothers. And the scale of those vaccines would be 25 -50 million a year. Here, we're talking about 2.6 billion injections in two years."
I don't see a privacy issue because, you know, when people get the vaccine, they are also going to get a digital vaccination certificate, which they can carry around either on the phone or in a digital locker or a hardcopy.
Vaccination is something I want to show people. One is, it makes me feel safe. Second, it helps in bringing herd immunity. And third, I need proof of vaccination so that I can get entry into a restaurant, board a plane or get into a taxi. "
I'm certainly willing to give the ideas. But I think the actual implementation will have to be done by the government. And the good news here is that many of my extraordinarily competent colleagues who worked on the other projects, a lot of them are at the joint Secretary level.
The West has seen second waves and third waves. And fortunately, we don't seem to be seeing that. And so I think it shows that our testing and tracing and quarantining and our health infrastructure has stood up reasonably well to the crisis.
"I think the stimulus package is particularly very important. And I really like a very large chunk of it is actually for the production link incentives, which was earlier there for electronics, but now they're for many sectors."
"I think India has a great chance to become a manufacturing hub" @FinMinIndia @nsitharaman
"I think the work from home will continue. We expect maybe about a third of people will continue to work from home. In the earlier model pre COVID, you had to hop onto a plane to meet a client, another client may well accept a video call even in a post COVID world"
