PNS | VIJAYAWADA
TDP chief Nara Chandrababu Naidu, on Wednesday, called upon the youth and the other sections to think as global citizens and associate themselves with the global economy to take the nation much ahead.
In an interaction with the faculty, staff, students and the alumni of International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) in Hyderabad on Wednesday Chandrababu strongly felt that the youth should not remain as the technology providers but grow as entrepreneurs.
Explaining how he struggled to meet Bill Gates to get the Microsoft unit to Hyderabad, he said he managed to convince the then prime minister, the Late Atal Behari Vajpayee, to get the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) to Hyderabad which resulted in the formation of Financial District there. Narrating the story behind developing Gachibowli, Chandrababu said he could visualise this 25 years ago and now Hyderabad is on the global map.
Maintaining that the roads in Hyderabad were very narrow and the city was once considered to be only as a semi-urban area, he recalled how he battled with the circumstances to widen the roads and later design the Outer Ring Road (ORR), the International Airport at Shamshabad and other projects which only convinced the investors to set up their units. Explaining in detail how Hyderabad city is now considered as a technical, financial and pharma hub, he wanted the youth to make use of the facilities available here and grow as global citizens. ”
“The IIIT, the Indian Business Management (IBM) and Nalsar University all these institutes of excellence are here and I feel happy that experts are coming out of these institutes to lead the nation and the world,” Chandrababu Naidu said. Expressing confidence in the Telugus to lead the world, he pointed out that the Vice President of America and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom have Indian links while Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of various top companies too are from the country.
