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‘Youth can now create their dream jobs'

Staff Reporter

Unique opportunities for young leaders to transform India

Corporate India is becoming professional and is hungry to go global
Every sector in India is poised for transformation in the coming years

Namakkal: Today's India provides opportunities for youth to create their own dream jobs, says General Manager of TATA Consultancy Services, Chennai, Ashok Seetharaman.

He was delivering the seventh graduation day address at Muthayammal Engineering College in Rasipuram, recently.

He felt that corporate India is becoming professional and is hungry to go global.

According to him every Indian sector is poised for transformation and offers unique opportunities for young leaders to participate in their transformation and put in their engineering skills.

“The India we foresee cannot be created without the world's best engineers and managers at the helm of the engine,” he added.

Widespread penetration of IT, convergence of technologies and globalization has resulted in demand for an all new set of skills, he said.

India is the 5 {+t} {+h} largest retail destination but accounts for only two percent of the global US $ 215 billion retail industry, thereby expected to grow tremendously. It is not unusual to have an engineer in the sector, he adds.

Green energy

Mr. Ashok pointed out that green energy is going to drive the agenda of the governments and businesses, and as an emerging sector offers huge potential for technology innovations. It was worth an opportunity for engineers to think about.

The country has provided quite a number of low-cost innovations for the world, he said, pointing out the world's cheapest mission to the moon of the century (Chandrayan) to the cheapest Nano car.

Urging the young graduates to strive towards excellence, he said that one of the greatest advantages of globalization is that it has brought in global competition where one has to be the best in the world.

College Principal M. Madeswaran said that 420 of the total 432 students who appeared for the final year semester examinations passed with a first class, while the college recorded an over all pass percentage of 97 percent for the final-year students. Secretary of the Muthayammal Educational and Research Foundation K. Gunasekaran and Chairman of the College R. Kandasamy also spoke.

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