'Private businesses can work in tandem with the government'

Shri Anil Swarup, Secretary, Department of School Education & Literacy, Government of India

“No matter what technology we have, until and unless we use that technology in the Indian context, it would not work. Technology itself will not solve my problems. Just to drive home a point that private businesses can play a very critical role in tandem with the government to bring about a transformation in which government services are delivered. I say because they are being delivered, but the quantum and association has to increase. When I was posted as the School Secretary under the government of India, it was the time when all the scams had happened and probably the government thought that this gentleman called Anil Swarup will be able to cleanse the system. But the good point is that the system was so bad, any good thing done in it will become an improvement.”

Shri Swarup was speaking at the 15th VARINDIA INFOTECH FORUM held in New Delhi on 25th May. The VARINDIA INFOTECH FORUM entered its 15th year by bringing together the who’s who of the ICT industry, IT consultants and senior government officials and PSUs and setting up a platform for a day-long event consisting of power-packed sessions of technical presentations, panel discussions and discourses on issues impacting the technology landscape and, most importantly, business networking. The theme of the 15th INFOTECH FORUM was – “Digitization and Role of IoT for Next-Generation Enterprise”.