SECOND MONDAY PROGRAM AS ON 06/11/2012 AT ICC,CUPERTINO
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The Guest speaker of the program was B V Jagadeesh, philanthropist, Technocrat, Venture Capitalist and founder of several Companies. His presentation was on "The Journey of Entrepreneur: Can India innovate to built the next big product company in the world" The meeting was presided over by Rama Swamy
                              B V Jagadeesh gave his historical struggle from native village in Karnataka State, India  to his success in High Tech in  Silicon Valley. He also worked with several reputable companies like Novel, Bridge Communication and 3com. He also founded the high tech companies, Exodus, Netscaler and Investment Venture ‘Kaaj’.
                            He said India can make it when you can see even beggars are using cell phone to improve their cash generation. Besides that Indians have Vision to progress. The Globalization also helped India to go ahead. We had severe Water and Electricity problems before Liberalization i.e. In the 1991. However we have been able to solve such problems considerably. We have improve our Education system and getting 350000 Engineers per year against 60000 of USA. We have got Talent pool including entrepreneurs pool even. Besides that India's saving is 23%of GDP. India is doing well in IT, Telecom, Auto, and Dairy Industries.India’s progress is also good in respect of Research and Developments Area. India GDP growth is  good and it is the fourth largest economy in context of its purchasing power parity. Besides that India’s 50% population is  young i.e. Less than 25 years. That is a great Assets for the country.
                                               He also added that now West has started Imitating India in the fields of Yoga, Art of Living, and including in Bollywood Music, Dance, and Culture.
                                               However he concluded that much is required to be done in India for following spheres
- Creating spirit for respecting Law.
- Improvement in  Education System. 
-Eradication of Corruption. 
-Further improvement of infrastructure.
- Planning and Execution thereon. 
Besides that all Indian must  develop feeling of pride for the Country.
                                The Question Answer Session was well participated.                                          Thereafter Prema Santhanam  proposed vote of Thanks.
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