Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, the manager chairperson of Biocon Enterprises, on Wednesday had a request for Indian techies that went viral amid the worsening civic disaster in Bengaluru. She requested the techies to “rise to the problem – waste to wealth and to a clear and inexperienced metropolis”.
“What use is tech expertise with out civic sense? Cannot we use expertise to maintain our metropolis clear, to self-discipline our site visitors and enhance infrastructure? If China can use robots to gather rubbish, clear sewers, and management site visitors offenders, why cannot we? Come on techies, rise to the problem – waste to wealth and to a clear and inexperienced metropolis,” she wrote in a put up on X.
Her put up went viral very quickly, as most netizens overwhelmingly agreed along with her take. A netizen commented, “Your ‘waste to wealth’ framing is very sturdy; it’s each poetic and sensible. Civic expertise reduces waste, enforces site visitors self-discipline, and strengthens infrastructure. Structural prosperity is constructed when tech expertise channels innovation into public programs, not simply personal platforms.”
A second consumer wrote, “Spot on! Techies can construct apps for sensible bins, AI site visitors cams like China’s—let’s make our cities clear & inexperienced (sic)!”
A consumer even flagged the distinction between India and China by way of implementation. The consumer wrote, “China can mandate implementation at scale in a single day. In India, democracy means slower execution, a number of stakeholders and public resistance.”
Some, nonetheless, stated that not every little thing is a tech drawback and that folks, IT firms and the federal government must do their half.
“Something to do with gov is the toughest factor to navigate for a ‘techie’. Additionally, not every little thing is a tech drawback. Tech can’t make people behave. Cleanliness, not being corrupt, and many others., can’t be dealt with by constructing tech,” a consumer wrote.
Yet one more consumer stated, “What precisely can techies do? Simply accumulating rubbish and dumping it within the metropolis outskirts and rural areas is of no use. For a metropolis of our measurement (and different metros), we’ll want 50 waste segregation websites for paper/plastic/metals/usable stuff, and mega incinerators to burn non-reusable rubbish. All prime IT/Large firms ought to create such services inside their very own campuses. Will they do it?”
