Moily says Obama 'Afraid' of Bangalore's IT Infrastructure


New Delhi, Nov 3 (PTI): With Barack Obama repeatedly asking Americans to work hard to compete with Bangalore and Beijing, Law Minister M Veerappa Moily on Wednesday said if at all the US President was ''afraid'' of anything it was the ''world class'' IT sector flourishing in the Garden City.

"If at all, the US President (Barack) Obama is afraid, he is afraid of only Bangalore. I think he is not visiting Bangalore this time," Moily quipped addressing a book launch function here.

Moily was telling the audiance present at the function about how he managed to get a "world class" IT sector infrastrcture established with the help of "excellent" civil servants in Bangalore when he was the Congress Chief Minister of Karnataka.

"We could create a world class infrastructure in IT Sector in Karnataka. And today our export is more that 18000 crore softwares per annum," Moily said.

"Many of the experiments which we did in Karnataka, it could be possible because we had excellent civil servants. You give an idea and they implement it," he added.

The Law Minister underlined that it is only India where creation of "such a world class" infrastructure and manpower is possible.

"It doesn't require much change except change in mindset. And our civil service system should respond to that, he said.

Obama has repeatedly said that American schools would have to ensure that they continue producing leagues of top professionals, so that the American hegemony in human resource continues in this century.

Exhorting American students to toil harder at school, the US President had recently said that their success would determine the country's leadership in a world where children in Bangalore and Beijing were raring to race ahead.

"At a time when other countries are competing with us like never before, when students around the world in Beijing, China, or Bangalore, India, are working harder than ever, and doing better than ever, your success in school is not just going to determine your success, it's going to determine America's success in the 21st century," Obama said addresing American students in September.

Last year, while announcing an end of tax incentives to US companies which created jobs overseas, Obama had launched the 'Say no to Bangalore and yes to Buffalo,' slogan.

Since then, he has time and again mentioned the competition coming in from developing countries like China and India while asking Americans to rise to the challenge to keep the American supremacy alive.

  

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  • Ashok, karkala/ karkala

    Thu, Nov 04 2010

    Evendhough Moily has not done anything good at karkala,he was very good in acting as if he was going to do something great.Finaly his ballon got bursted after the deth of SADDHA.

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  • Pavan, Karkala

    Wed, Nov 03 2010

    Mr Moily now taking the credit of Bangalore IT growth initiation.

    In reality, IT growth in Karnataka has something to do with the companies such as Infosys, Inventa, PSI Bull, Wipro etc., who strugggled hard in the budding days.

    Just because Bagalore was chosen as a sector for Defence Research and manufacturig facilities in the five-year plan, there budded these companies who could manage to get support contracts. The exposure and experience of these companies soon transformed into something Giant and super.

    So, I would say - Government of Karnataka is still in the reaction mode to the need of these industries. Visit Kaveri Bhavan and see the efficiency of our Civil Servants !!!

    The Cool and Safe Haven of Bangalore is to be given credit first!!!

    If Obama appreciates the skill of India and China, Moily should be thankful to the comments and should be opportunistic to invite him to Bangalore and sign more IT deals. It is not the fear of Obama - rather a reminder to his fellow citizens.

    Obama hails from USA where the ratio of Scientists per thousand Engineers is perhaps 10 to 20 fold compared to 10:1000 Engineers of Karnataka. So, shouldn't be Moily afraid or fearful of this situation ?

    See the pothole roads of Karkala, which was his constituency once and be reminded of his roots. See the Mini Vidhana Soudha of Karkala and see the IT efficiency of Karntaka.

    Building self profile is important but should think of the profile of Karkala and Karnataka too

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  • A.S.Mathew, U.S.A.

    Wed, Nov 03 2010

    Motivating our own children to be
    smart and winners is a good game
    plan, but creating fear by inflating the neighbours strength
    is a confused psychology.

    President Obama is pre-occupied with an unfounded fear, both of China and
    India in their advancement in
    education and economic prosperity.

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