
Shekhar Gupta: Right
Veerappa Moily: And you don't get that kind of a choice of fish as of quality. Then in an ocean you get any choice of fish, large quantity, the best quality. This is how this matter and there should be a large talent pool which the country deserves. How can you do it. Is it confined only to certain segments?
Shekhar Gupta: but that has to be much larger than even what we have now?
Veerappa Moily: Yeah, correct
Shekhar Gupta: 52 per cent is great. But what we need is 500 per cent increase
Veerappa Moily: Yeah. More than that. You know you can't say that many of the IIM even 98 per cent there may be a cut off. Man gets 97 per cent that boy has to go to the Harvard, Cambridge and come back to boss over to you
Shekhar Gupta: Yes
Veerappa Moily: So I think the whole mindset will have to be changed
Shekhar Gupta: In fact many of them go to Australia (laughs)
Veerappa Moily: (laughs) And get into problem. You know that should be I rather say that this country can become the real reservoir of human capital. I made an experiment, for example in Karnataka there were advertisements in Maharashtra newspapers and other newspapers from the Maharashtra government you know calling for the application from the engineers. Then there is a column p.s post script Karnataka engineers need not apply. The quality of the engineers was very bad
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