Public Money, Private Architecture: Inside India's Digital Infrastructure Black Holes
Public Money, Private Architecture: Inside India’s Digital Infrastructure Black Holes Originally published as a series of Twitter threads between March–May 2020 Over the past few weeks, I’ve been doing reading sessions on two critical pillars of India’s digital governance architecture — the Nandan Nilekani PDS Task Force report that first mooted the idea of PDSN, and the PM-CARES / PMNRF accountability vacuum that emerged during the COVID-19 crisis. What connects them is a single, disturbing pattern: public money flowing through privately-architected structures that evade every democratic accountability mechanism — RTI, CAG, CVC, parliamentary questions. ...