It’s indeed a good (must) habit for a professional to read at least one news paper regularly. I know thatJ. But sometimes in our simple, stupid daily lives there will be many other things with much more priorities. Sometimes we may don’t even care about such a stuff called news paper. It’s then we realize the impact that controversial blockbusters like IPL can make in our society. I am sure that the recent IPL back-stage performances must have brought thousands back to the habit of reading daily news at least for a months period. Of course I can’t be an exception at all.
It was on 14th April, I think, totally getting bored with Modi, Sunanda, Tharoor and all, I was going through a report on Infosys’ quarterly results. The report was saying that the results were ahead of company’s own guidance. It also said that the increased salary hikes have eaten into the company’s profitability. I read that point twice/thrice; thought of my good old days as a software engineer, most of the time being a ‘bencher’; thought of my friends who jumped into other companies with hikes.....with a little jealousy and a little frustrationJ.
The very next day there was another report quoting Mr Sam Pitroda, Advisor to Prime Minister on public information infrastructure and innovations. The telecom guru was saying – “if Bangalore can become back-office of America, why can’t our rural areas become back-office of urban areas?” As countries like Philippines pose strong challenges to the Indian BPO industry, looking into both these reports together can introduce new possible growth models to us. If we identify the huge young talent in our rural villages, train them properly and provide good infrastructure and technological facilities, it won’t be so hard to tackle the above mentioned question.
One main reason for today’s so called growth in the rural areas is the migration of employees from rural villages to cities like Bangalore. It is the money sent from the cities that prosper their families in the villages. If Mr Pitroda’s dream comes true, it will revitalize the Indian IT revolution enabling it to retain its cost advantage and taking our growth truly in to the grassroots level. In that case it will be our well established urban IT centers that lead product and process innovations for the entire world while our rural villages act as support-centres for these innovations.
Good thought but you are ages behind management guru's like CKP who thought this way back in 1990's.So, nee pattunna panikku poyal pore..write something very light n which we can laugh our heart out.. :-)
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