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Bangalore: It was a proud day for the 63 social entrepreneurs from across Asia who inducted into the Ashoka Innovators for the Public fraternity by founder William Drayton and Infosys chief mentor N R Narayana Murthy on Thursday.
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BANGALORE: Infosys Chairman and chief mentor N R Narayan Murthy said that the reduction in the contribution of agriculture to the GDP was alarming.
Speaking at the induction ceremony of 63 recipients of Ashoka Fellowships from Asia, a reception that was hosted by the Infosys Foundation, he said that 65 per cent of the country’s population involved in agriculture were contributing only 24 per cent to the GDP. The rate of contribution has come down from 3.2 per cent till 1995 to 1.9 per cent now, he pointed out.
Leading this system-changing worldwide organisation is an equally unusual man, William Drayton, a former civil rights activist who has been a professor at Stanford Law School before pursuing a career with McKinsey and later the US Environmental Agency where he launched emissions trading. In Bangalore last week for an event to induct leading social entrepreneurs to the Ashoka fellowship, Drayton spoke with Sundeep Khanna of FE.
Even though India as a country has fared pretty well in terms of economic growth in recent years, the growth in agriculture has been a major concern, said N R Narayana Murthy, Chief Mentor, Infosys. He was delivering the key-note address at a programme to felicitate the recipients of the 2005 and 2006 Ashoka Fellowships from Asia on Thursday.
The first Fellow in Palestine (West Bank) was elected in 2006.
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