The future belongs to people from rural areas whose native intelligence is waiting to be tapped, according to V. Kamakoti, director of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.
Receiving the first PDG Ramakrishna Raja Memorial Award instituted by the Rotary Club of Madras South, Mr. Kamakoti stressed on the need for India to become self-reliant. The COVID-19 pandemic had taught a few lessons to India.
In the early days of pandemic, all that was known was that an infected person could infect another if he was close by.
