Mumbai, Oct 9 (IANS) UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is eyeing India’s Aadhaar card initiative as an inspiration as his government is reportedly planning to move forward with introducing a nationwide digital identity system.

Landing in Mumbai on Tuesday, Starmer’s first stop was a meeting with Nandan Nilekani, Infosys co-founder and former Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI).

According to The Guardian, Downing Street later clarified that the meeting was not about any commercial arrangement with Infosys but to understand how India built one of the world’s largest digital identity systems.

Starmer has repeatedly highlighted Aadhaar as a model of success.

“We are going to a country, India, where they’ve already done ID and made a massive success of it. So one o

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