Hyderabad, Jun 19 (PTI) Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Friday said the state should produce unicorns without being content with Indian-origin professionals heading top companies in the world.
Speaking at the Young India Education Kits and the Drug-Free Telangana Pledge ceremony held here Friday evening, he said though alumni of Hyderabad Public School lead the top global companies, it is not enough.
“Today, we say that we are CEOs of huge companies. But, we neither launched them nor are we their owners. Whether it is Satya Nadella, Shantanu Narayen or Ajay Banga of World Bank. We are neither owners nor we founded them. We are working as CEOs. This is not enough. We have to found and we should be owners. We have to produce unicorns from Telangana,” he said.
Satya Nadella, Shantanu Narayen and Ajay Banga are among the renowned alumni of HPS.
Reddy said state IT and Industries Minister D Sridhar Babu has made agreements with Google and others to provide crores of rupees of funding for research by students.
He said the state government has allocated 8.5 per cent of total budget to education.
Dismissing criticism that the state does not have a dedicated education minister, he said he is handling the education portfolio to reform the education system.
In line with the Centre’s Viksit Bharat 2047 vision, the state government aims to make the state a USD three trillion economy by 2047, he said. PTI SJR MNK MNK
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