Yes vanilla is not plain. The plain flavour is Rabri. It's just you don't have rabri in the west that's why you all think vanilla is plain.
Also rabri ice-cream >> vanilla ice-cream
A little context, he is the previous CEO of NITI Aayog, the "company" in question.
Niti aayog is a government owned think tank/ company whose purpose it is to do bring and do feasibility studies of possible government policies. The person is a civil servant and this was his previous job.
The company isn't a multi-billion dollar company, it's basically the government, that too under the bureaucratic wing of the government.
We got UPI in india and it's amazing. You use it and feel like the rest of the world is living in the past.