'I told Nandan, 'you have to start from somewhere. Why are you not thinking about it?' We are brainstorming it,' the minister told IANS after the inaugural session of the conclave.

Nilekani, a co-founder of software giant Infosys, has joined the central government as chairperson of the Unique Identification Database Authority of India. It is a new agency set up to provide unique identification numbers to all citizens for accessing various government services.