Returning to the global software firm Infosys after eight years as its new non-Executive Chairman, co-founder Nandan Nilekani went down memory lane on Friday to recall his contribution to the country too.

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"I was a CEO of this company and resigned from that position 10 years ago. In 2009, I was invited by then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take a job in the government in the status of a cabinet minister to do one of the world`s most sophisticated technology projects -- Aadhaar (card) that has given over a billion people an identity and is the fundamental basis for India`s transformation," said Nilekani at a news conference here.

Nilekani, 62, who was CEO of Infosys from March 2002 till April 2007 and its Vice-Chairman subsequently, quit the company in 2009 to head the Unique Identification Authority of India as its first Chairman till May 2014.

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