Stronger vaccination drive need to revive economy, create jobs: Nilekani

To achieve scale, one has to vaccinate 5-10 million people a day and this would need strong cooperation between govt and private sector, he says

The acceleration of the vaccination efforts against Covid-19 at scale would help India to come out of the pandemic crisis faster and sooner revive the economy and create jobs, said Nandan Nilekani, founding architect of Aadhaar and co-founder of Infosys. 

He said this would require strong cooperation between the government and the private sector and it is a too big task for one person and organisation to accomplish.

“If you have to vaccinate at scale, we would have to vaccinate 5-10 million people per day, to make it happen,” said Nilekani at an event organised by Public Affairs Forum of