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“Unequal growth will spark social tension”

CHENNAI: Unequal development, manpower shortage and poor agriculture productivity are some of the important challenges the country faces today, S. Gopalakrishnan, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Infosys Technologies, said here on Monday.

Delivering the 12th endowment lecture of the National Institute of Personnel Management on ‘New India -- New Opportunities,’ he said unequal development would create tension in society. Lack of manpower hit every field, and must be addressed. As for the education sector, he said private initiatives had to be considered.

Focussing on merit with better governance was the next issue that needed attention. Both private and public sector needed better governance, Mr. Gopalakrishnan said. Lack of infrastructure development had resulted in increased wastage.

So it was necessary that the infrastructure development went hand in hand with development.

The environmental concerns were also equally important. Industry should come up with appropriate technologies that would not affect the environment.

N. Venkataramani, Managing Director, India Pistons, said the organisational structure of personnel management in software and information technology sectors were different from that of the manufacturing sector. In the former, the contribution of the workforce had a strong intellectual texture that was knowledge-based, while it was skill-based in the latter. India’s entry into the global economy across all sectors started with real advantages: a very large population, a well-developed education system covering a wide spectrum of disciplines vital for economic growth, fairly developed infrastructure and, above all, stable government.

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