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Stress on toning up infrastructure
Special Correspondent
CHENNAI: India’s stock markets and software industry may be booming, but, as traffic snarls, water shortages and sewage systems in almost every city illustrate, the infrastructure must be brought up to standard if the country at large is to reap the benefits, Narayana Murthy, chief mentor, Infosys Technologies, said on Saturday.
Mr. Murthy, who was speaking at the launch of the new Centre for Excellence for Infrastructure, said that though there were signs of tremendous positivity, “for us to make it an inclusive growth story, to bring the benefits of globalisation to the worst off sections, we have to get into low-tech manufacturing and services to create job opportunities for the illiterate and semi-literate… In order to make sure that they can enjoy the fruits of liberalisation and globalisation, we have to focus on infrastructure.”
The need of the day and the first stage to a better infrastructure, he said, was to bring about a change in the mindset. “Unless we are open-minded and learn from other countries and cultures which have performed better than us, unless we are willing to engage in discussions with those who have created infrastructure better than we have done, unless we are willing to admit our mistakes and… open our minds to learn, I am not very sure that we will make the kind of progress that we want.” Along with customer care and an invigorating workplace, it was openness to ideas and benchmarking with the global best that made the IT industry what it was today, he said.
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