let's celebrate the ITsector

Text of letter sent to the press on 5th May, '06; regains validity in the light of Dr U R Ananthamurthy's statements reported in the press today

It is shocking and indeed bewildering the way even some people, who you would normally consider knowledgeable ( I will choose to keep the CM out of the purview of the discussion, for now), are attributing the problems, Bangalore is faced with, to the IT sector.

The problems are resulting totally out of the incompetence of the government and its various agencies in handling the developmental issues related to economic growth. It so happens that the growth is led by the IT sector. They would have been the same if the growth had been led by any of the other sectors also. Now, resulting out of this overall buoyancy, all the other sectors are also growing. Instead of celebrating it, and taking advantage of it all to improve your own conditions, if somebody wants to sit back and complain (and lament about the good old times when you could engage a servant maid for just Rs 5/- month, and things like that), well, it's their funeral. Let the world move on.

Simultaneously, let's also get the government moving, or even better, reduce its burden to the bare essentials, like policy planning, policy implementation, policing, basic health, primary education, and a few other things, so that it can do a better job where its presence is needed.