Rajeev Chandrashekar joins Hyderabad v/s Bengaluru debate; 'it's a no competition,' he says

The Bengaluru v/s Hyderabad debate has caught on like wildfire across the internet after former Former CFO and Board Member at the Infosys and the current Chairperson of the Manipal Global Education Mohandas Pai shared an article highlighting Hyderabad’s potential to overtake Bengaluru as the IT capital of India. The debate has now found its way into other domains as well as Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar spoke about it in the Bengaluru Tech Summit. “Bengaluru has swiftly expanded and diversified its capabilities from IT – today, it houses the engineering and R&D centre of “every semicon brand or every semicon major including AMD, Applied Materials, Lam research, Intel, every company including Fujitsu. More importantly than just having a back office R&D, the engineering of the next generation of devices are happening here, So while other cities may try and compete with Bengaluru -- the Hyderabad Bengaluru competition is a legendary competition -- but I think it's a no competition,” he stated. 

Will Hyderabad Dethrone Bangalore’s IT Status? continued neglect of Bengaluru by successive govts over last 10 years has led to this. Hope govt shows more energy to improve city ⁦@CMofKarnataka⁩ ⁦@siddaramaiah⁩ ⁦@DKShivakumar⁩ ⁦⁩ https://t.co/sG4uCv6edK

— Mohandas Pai (@TVMohandasPai)

Will Hyderabad Dethrone Bangalore’s IT Status? continued neglect of Bengaluru by successive govts over last 10 years has led to this. Hope govt shows more energy to improve city ⁦@CMofKarnataka⁩ ⁦@siddaramaiah⁩ ⁦@DKShivakumar⁩ ⁦⁩ https://t.co/sG4uCv6edK

— Mohandas Pai (@TVMohandasPai) November 29, 2023

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He also spoke about the special connection he shared with the city. Sometimes as a Bangalorean, I have mixed emotions. I in the morning when I meet with great brands and companies and I say ‘go to Bengaluru’. Then in the afternoon, I think ‘should I be really telling them to go to Bengaluru because they'll make the traffic problem even worse,’ and so on and so forth. But at the heart of it, I am very, very proud of what our city has accomplished, what our Bengalurueans have done, how welcoming they have been about of great companies and great brands and how they work to make these great brands successful in Bengaluru. And that in my opinion, in the coming decade, Silicon Valley can be named the Bangalore of the West,” he said.