Infosys Chief Mentor N R Narayana Murthy said on Monday that though India was 20 years ahead of China in the Information Technology (IT) sector, Beijing was fast catching up with India in the sector by focussing more on education.
Addressing the induction ceremony of the company’s InStep Programme in which over 125 candidates were selected among the 12,000 global aspirants here, Murthy said China was growing well in the IT sector giving better focus on education programmes which were fit for other other nations to emulate.
Though China had done extremely well in the manufacturing sector and created over 130 to 140 million jobs, it lagged India in software sector. However, China had extraordinary quality to overcome the gap and surge ahead in this sector also, Murthy replied to an internee from Beijing.
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