Disparity the biggest Challenge-Sam Pitroda

Excerpts from Mr.Sam Pitroda's recent interview:-

"Look what we have gone through in this nuclear deal the amount of hassle the amount of jhagda-lafda. India needs  energy. This is not about nuclear deal to me. To me it is about lighting the lives of poorest of the poor in India. It is about giving lamp to a child in village who doesn’t have lamp to read. Happens to be nuclear. So I think when you look at these big pieces you have privatisation, you have energy but you also need whole series of things on basic needs: water, sanitation, agriculture, food, housing, the big piece on infrastructure-roads to airports to trains. There is just too much  work in India. There is work cut out for 50 years. It is not about creating more billionaires. It is not about more Bangalore and software companies, more Infosys and TCS’s and Wipros. It is about people at the bottom of the pyramid. If you really want to build a nation you got to take that 400 million with you. You can’t leave them. And you can’t count on the trickling down effect only. So I think disparity is a big challenge. And whatever big plan we have that plan must take into consideration basic human needs."

Sam Pitroda, is considered as the  father of Indian telecom and currently heads India’s National Knowledge Commission,which covers the five focus areas of the Knowledge paradigm.