Nandan Nilekani helps revamp bed allocation software

Information technology industry veteran Nandan M Nilekani has extended a helping hand to revamp the computer software relating to bed allocation for COVID-19 patients in the city, Bengaluru south MP Tejaswi Surya said on Wednesday. Surya, along with three BJP MLAs, on Tuesday raised issues of alleged irregularities and anomalies in the city’s civic body Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) bed booking for the COVID-19 patients.

The MP said he had a conversation with Nilekani, the non-executive chairman of software major Infosys Ltd and former chairman of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), this morning and sought his help to revamp BBMP bed allocation software.