Daijiworld Media Network - Bangalore (SP)
Bangalore, Jun 22: Union minister for foreign affairs S M Krishna has expresses his deep concern over the investment that would have come to the state, but for the carelessness of the state government. "At a time when the entire country has turned its attention to Bangalore, dubbing it as the Silicon Valley of India driven by a society bent upon gaining knowledge, the state government has been showing total apathy towards attracting investments. As such, the state and the city have lost on this front," he explained.
He was addressing the gathering at a function organized at Basavanagudi National College ground by Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee on Sunday June 21, to felicitate the new union ministers from the state and Congress MPs. " The city, and through it, the state, had risen to the level in which the whole world was sitting up and taking notice of its meteoric rise. If we turn away from attracting investments, it would be impossible to get investors interested in the state. The government should create an environment in which investors get interested in making their investment in the state," Krishna advised.
The union minister claimed, because of the proactive and bold decisions he had taken when he was the state Chief Minister in the year 1998-99, the investors who had turned towards Hyderabad, were veered towards the state. The people of the state gained recognition as a knowledge-based society. Because of the performance of the information technology(IT) sector here, the city came to be known as the, 'Silicon Valley of India', Krishna reminisced.
He told the present BJP government, that because of the progress in the IT sector, demand was created for human resources, which in turn, brought considerable change in the living standard of the people. He hoped that the state government will redraft its strategies on these lines.
Krishna expressed the hope, that the Congress Party will get a thumping victory in the next assembly election and form a government in the state on its own. With this aim in mind, the state has been given a strong representation in the union cabinet, he opined.