What are suggestions to make India an infotech superpower in the new millennium?
The first priority is to make schools and colleges more infotech-oriented. I told you that India is a great country in mind products. But today companies like ours spend money on training people and then employing them. Which, in other words, means that actual productivity takes place only after a year or two. What we should do is to provide students with computer knowledge and skills in schools and colleges so that by the time they come out, they are fit for employment. Unfortunately, we do everything these days. We teach them, train them and then employ them. Today India has been recognized as one of the best in IT industry. For India, marketing of IT is not required, only selling is. But for this, we need to create the right IT people. I was scanning through the syllabi of some colleges recently. What the students there are taught are old computer languages. The sad thing is that in some of our colleges, IT is taught like they are teaching swimming through correspondence. Today the
