Rebooting India: Realizing a Billion Aspirations (34 page)

A public health centre on the outskirts of Bengaluru, May 2010. The computer at this health centre is draped in protective covers and kept under lock and key in a separate room, and is of little use.

Photograph © Naman Pugalia

At the same Bengaluru primary health centre, while the computer languishes unused, paper records like this one are used to track the vaccinations administered to a child.

Photograph © Naman Pugalia

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