Narayan Murthy stresses on opportunities for poor

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Guwahati, Aug 5: Providing good opportunity for development of poorer section of people is the biggest challenge facing the nation, according to chief mentor IT major, Infosys Technologies Ltd, N R Narayana Murthy.

Delivering a lecture on " Diverse contemporary issues targeted to all sections of the society " at the Indian Tea Association (ITA) cultural complex yesterday on the first day of his maiden two-day visit to the city, Mr Murthy lauded the efforts of the P V Narasima Rao government for taking economic reforms measures 15 years ago.

He said the country was faced with challenges to achieve certain goals to become a developed nation.

" The hardest challenge we face is how to make available all good opportunity to poorer section of people for development on all fronts, " Mr Murthy said.

The IT guru said for the first time India's economic growth had crossed eight per cent and foreign exchange reserve was over 0 billion. He claimed that contribution of the IT sector to country's economic growth was substantial.

"The IT sector has been able to create a very positive impression among developed nations that India is a country having the world's best IT companies. Today, we develop software for the world's top-line Banks, financial institutions and retailers, " he said.

Still emphasising on better performance of the IT sectors, the Infosys chief mentor reiterated his mantra of " performance brings recognition, recognition brings respect and respect brings power ".

According to him, the government had done all for the corporate sector and now it was time for the corporate leaders to perform better.

"It is the time for corporate leaders to deliver what people expect from them, " he averred.

Mr Murthy also had long discussion with Cief Minister Tarun Gogoi. He hoped Asom was poised for much better days as Mr Gogoi had put in serious effort to remove all hurdles in the path of development. He said once these hurdles were removed, all big IT companies would start their operations in Asom.

UNI

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