Karnataka

“I think in semiconductors, you will see something like that with a place like Bangalore, for example, in chip design. Honestly, the talent is already here. It's already happening here. Manufacturing maybe not so much in Karnataka, but maybe more in Gujarat whe…”

“It's a powerhouse of a lot of services exports, and it's actually contributed more than one fifty billion dollars in services exports to India at large and globally as well.”

“When we talk about other factors, we talk about, you know, the fact that this state has more than a million plus tech workforce.”

“In the last three and a half years or so more than a hundred companies have set up their operations in Mesur, in Bangalore, in Hubli, in Belgao, in Dharwad, in these locations, in, in Kalwargi.”

“Now, if you ask me next 18 months you know, then I would say that you will find ESDM will be playing a very important role in next year because my proposal getting far mature now and we'll go live in next 18 months. So you'll find 1500 crore manufacturing plan…”

“Before you go to startup, I just want to add one more point is, all the policies of the government of Kananaga, right, from a startup policy to IT policy to ER&D policy to GCC policy to, you know, cybersecurity policy, biotech policy, Two things which you shou…”

“Three hundred billion dollars is our explanation target to contribute one trillion dollar digital economy of the country. That means that one third coming from one state,”

“Yeah, we got the, one of the largest R&D investments committed to the state in just 30 minutes conversation over a dinner.”

“What I do is I maintain a rank of all the states, ah, and where they stand on their per capita income and what the movements have been over time. So Karnataka has seen the sharpest movement in the last 1020 years, in fact.”

“What Karnataka government was trying to do is to say that we want to reserve 75% of low-end jobs and 50% of managerial jobs to people who are local.”

“But if you are forced to hire only locals and a significant percentage of them, then you're going to limit the number of people that you can attract, and that will impact the attractiveness of Karnataka and Bangalore in particular as a place for doing business…”

“However, Bangalore only takes 6.66% of Karnatka's allocation of Cauvery waters, and supports roughly 50% of Karnatka's population in the Cauvery basin. It also generates 70% of the GDP of the state.”

“For our puja flowers, roses and sevanti, a big part of it does actually come from Karnataka. I won't say Bangalore specifically, but Lotus comes from Kerala and all of that stuff. So it's very distributed like Jasmine and everything. They come from different p…”

“In center, there's no corruption, but today, all states have become more corrupt. The level of corruption in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra is extraordinary.”