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Building capableness to store information successful the state has been accorded apical precedence by the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), the department’s secretary, S. Krishnan, said present connected Wednesday.
Speaking astatine Dr. (Mrs.) YGP’s Centenary Celebrations, Mr. Krishnan said India generated 20% of the world’s data, but had the capableness to store simply 4%. “Unless we make capacity, we can’t adjacent store the data. At the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, it is our apical precedence to spot however we physique this spot implicit a play of clip successful each space,” helium added.
The contiguous geopolitical discourse was a stark departure from the past — escaped commercialized and exchanges person been replaced by commercialized barriers and restrictions. This meant that resilience had to beryllium built, state by country, Mr. Krishnan said.
Recalling Mrs. YGP’s efforts to beforehand axenic subject and mathematics among young students, which formed the backbone of research, helium stressed the value of encouraging radical to get into these fields. India, helium said, invested 0.7% of its GDP successful probe and development. Of this, 0.6% is spent by the government.
Sridhar Vembu, Founder and Chief Scientist, Zoho Corporation, said Israel, with a colonisation smaller than Chennai’s, invested 6% of its GDP successful probe and development. Technologies developed by that state were being utilized extensively to enactment agriculture successful adust and semi-arid areas successful the State.
Answering a question from the audience, Dr. Sridhar said his institution was readying to motorboat a selling campaign, successful astir a month’s time, for the caller messaging and calling app, Arattai. “All bully things instrumentality time. To physique thing that genuinely lasts, takes time,” helium added.
Five distinguished alumni of the Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan Group of Schools — Air Marshal P.V. Shivanand of the Indian Air Force, Major General Praveen Badrinath of the Indian Army, Commodore Sreekumar Srinivasan of the Indian Navy, Chithra Madhavan, Historian, and S. Vaidhyasubramaniam, Educationist — were felicitated connected the occasion.
Lakshmi Devanath, biographer of Mrs. YGP, was besides felicitated. Sheela Rajendra, Dean and Director, Padma Seshadri Group of Schools, spoke.
