Bengaluru has the biggest talent pool in Asia, says CM Shivakumar

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Karnataka Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar successful  speech  with Narayan Lakshman, The Hindu’s Opinion Editor and curator of The Huddle, during The Hindu Huddle, successful  Bengaluru connected  June 5, 2026.

Karnataka Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar successful speech with Narayan Lakshman, The Hindu’s Opinion Editor and curator of The Huddle, during The Hindu Huddle, successful Bengaluru connected June 5, 2026. | Photo Credit: K. Murali Kumar

Bengaluru has the biggest endowment excavation successful Asia and the satellite sees India done Bengaluru, said Karnataka Chief Minister D. K. Shivakumar, inaugurating the sixth variation of The Hindu Huddle successful Bengaluru connected Friday (June 5, 2026).

“While California has 13 lakh IT professionals, Bengaluru has 26 lakh IT professionals. Karnataka produces 13,940 doctors, implicit a lakh engineers, and 1.2 lakh nurses each year. We export the champion of the endowment to the remainder of the world. A fewer months agone erstwhile I was successful Davos, everyone said they find the champion endowment excavation successful India lone successful Bengaluru,” helium said during the league ‘Government of the People: Karnataka’s tryst with equitable growth’.

Indicating that this did not hap overnight, Mr. Shivakumar said adjacent during the times of Jawaharlal Nehru, cardinal Public Sector Units (PSUs) specified arsenic the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), Hindustan Machine Tools (HMT), and Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) isolated from Indian Institute of Management (IIM) were started successful Bengaluru.

Many students from assorted States survey successful Bengaluru due to the fact that it was the “safest city”, helium added.

‘I commencement the time with The Hindu’

The Chief Minister said helium starts his time with a java and The Hindu.

“It [The Hindu] is simply a radical with a agelong past and heritage. The Hindu has not budged an inch contempt governmental and authorities pressures. Your pen is precise straight. That pen has been providing absorption to the full state and each sections of the society,” helium said.

Mr. Shivakumar said helium was blessed to commencement his outreach arsenic a caller Chief Minister with The Hindu Group. “This is the archetypal lawsuit I person inaugurated arsenic the main minister,” helium said, adding The Huddle had brought the champion minds to Bengaluru.

“Joining unneurotic is the beginning, treatment and deliberations is advancement and fto america each enactment unneurotic to marque Karnataka and India stronger,” helium said, adding that The Hindu Huddle was providing solutions to each conception of nine specified arsenic politics, trade, commerce, sports and culture.

The Hindu Huddle is presented by the Sami-Sabinsa Group arsenic the Presenting Partner. The lawsuit is co-powered by the Government of Telangana and held successful relation with Khaja Bandanawaz University.

The lawsuit is further supported by Bank of Baroda, Larsen & Toubro, Apollo Hospitals, IIM Sirmaur, ICFAI Group, TAFE, Wizzmon, Uttarakhand Government, Associate Partners; Casagrand, Realty Partner; Toyota, Luxury Car Partner; Amity University Bengaluru, University Partner; Harrow International School Bengaluru, Education Partner; Meghalaya Tourism, State Partner; and NDTV 24x7, TV Partner.

Published - June 05, 2026 01:12 p.m. IST

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