"... All of us feel that India has the intellectual power for higher
levels of software. High level software provides a challenge to our best minds
and at the same time it is a wealth generator. This should be focused upon as a
mission area in IT. If the necessary enabling conditions are provided, this
single area can transform out IT, electronics and manufacturing sector into a
major economic entity. Another item relates to actions for the spread of IT
applications countrywide for purposes ranging from boosting business to
spreading knowledge about fundamental rights and responsibilities, impart
skills, to provide preventive health care information and for several such items
pertaining to acquiring a better standard of living. It can be a vary useful
tool for transmission of education to even the remotest parts of our country.
India's system of education and skill-generation can be transformed in a decade
if we can creatively and purposefully deploy IT technologies ... "
" ... Few dream and many transform it into thoughts and thoughts have be
transformed into actions. I would like to tell particularly to the young
audience of this gathering, the vision is bigger than us. The developed India
needs a revolution in the minds of the young. Enter into it. Ignited minds are
indeed the powerful resource to transform this nation from the developing nation
of 50 years into a developed nation in less than two decades times. Technology
is the prime mover for the vision for the nation."
