Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu appealed to people not to create a North-South divide while responding to a post of Padma Shri awardee and former Infosys Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Mohandas Pai in which he slammed the Centre for “excluding Bengaluru” as one of the places to set up the AI Centre Excellence.Pai kicked off a debate on social media after he questioned Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnav on why Bengaluru, which has long been regarded as the country’s IT hub, was left out of this major initiative. “Bengaluru voted for NDA but all we get is step motherly treatment. Citizens here are very angry and upset at you folks repeatedly ignoring us in the South! Are we children of a lesser God here?” Pai tweeted.On Tuesday, Pradhan inaugurated AI Centres at three prestigious institutions: IIT-Kanpur, IIT-Ropar, and a joint centre at IIT-Delhi and AIIMS. The absence of Bengaluru prompted Pai to express his concerns publicly. Vembu, who was part of the…
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