INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
BENGALURU: Underscoring the need to improve Bengaluru's infrastructure with 'a sense of alacrity', Infosys co-founder NR Narayana Murthy
Wednesday suggested those in the infrastructure industry should work three shifts a day, reports Vindhya Pabolu.Replying to a question on
'What Bengaluru needs to do to become even more successful?' during a fireside chat with Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamathat the Bengaluru
Tech Summit-2023 here, Murthy pointed to the slow progress of the Metro rail project in the tech corridor of Electronics City and other
parts of the city and said: "Work has to be taken up on priority." "People in infrastructure industry must work three shifts.They should not
be just coming at 11am and going back at 5pm - not at least on the Electronics City stretch
That is what I see, and I may be completely wrong," he said.In nations that have high aspirations, people work two shifts and I have seen
people working at midnight there
We want to be better than those countries
Murthy yet again made a strong pitch for allowing complete freedom in setting up English medium schools
I have met important people from different areas and they have all sent their children to English medium schools
There is a large mass of poor people
I think we, the evangelists of capitalism, must accept that we must pay [income] taxes at a higher rate because there are so many public
