Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu inaugurates 24th annual innovation conclave Bengaluru Tech Summit 2021
He also said IT & BT and Do Your Duty, You Will Become The Mighty
Bengaluru: Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu called upon innovators and entrepreneurs to create ideas that bring happiness to the people and their lives.
Inaugurating the 24th edition of Karnataka state’s flagship three-day technology event Bengaluru Tech Summit 2021 here on Wednesday, he said Bengaluru is at the forefront of India’s knowledge wealth and is rightly called the knowledge capital of India.
The Vice-President said it has become necessary to transform IT and BT “by doing our duty to become mighty” in creating knowledge wealth for the country.
He said there is a need to share and care when it comes to knowledge and ideas which is at the heart of India’s philosophy.
Naidu said the summit should also focus on agriculture which is facing turbulence and the challenges that are being posed to mankind by climate change notwithstanding the ongoing pandemic that the world is undergoing.
“We should come up with new ideas through innovation to encourage the growth of knowledge economy and ensure that we reform and perform better to transform India into the new economy,” the vice-president said.
He called upon private entrepreneurs to create jobs in the new economy even as government initiatives were crucial to its growth.
He started his speech in Kannada and later switched over to English after uttering quite a few sentences in the local language. In the beginning, he paid condolences to departed Kannada actor Puneet Rajkumar.
Earlier, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said, “man is an innovator and the creator of man is a greater innovator as man is blessed with intelligence, independence, capability to travel in space at the speed of light and sound and also the ability to express himself better.”
He said sky is not the limit in today’s world as far as technology and innovation are concerned. He said there is a need to think as an individual, as a country and as a group of innovators.
The chief minister said use of technology should reach the common man and the poorest of the poor and he said the government of Karnataka is committed to ensure that Make in Karnataka is adopted to contribute to the Make in India concept.
Minister for IT & BT, science & technology Ashwath Narayan C N said Bengaluru is the hub of future technologies and Karnataka state is the leader in IT, BT and is truly the knowledge capital of India. He said Karnataka is the first state to implement the National Education Policy and expressed confidence that the new policy will take the state to newer heights. He also expressed happiness technology is now reaching other cities of Karnataka.
Prime Minister of Israel Naftali Bennett said in his virtual address that the future belongs to the innovators. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison who also attended the event virtually said Australia is working on setting up the consulate general office in Bengaluru which will help forge stronger economic ties with the tech capital of India.
Karnataka Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot also spoke on the occasion. Additional Chief Secretary E V Ramana Reddy was also present.
