Narayana Mantra: This is what Murthy said about Governance

NARAYANA MANTRA
The Times of India

Down memory lane: This is what Infosys chief mentor N R Narayana Murthy said on the role of government, on ground realities...

The first step in this process (to ensure progress and development) is to phase out the role of the Gover nment in all economic activities. The inefficiency of our public sector reiterates the need for this...
All developmental activities for the common man such as education, healthcare, shelter and food distribution should be handled by reputed private sector institutions. It should be a competitive market in order to prevent the formation of monopolies. The contribution of the Government should be by way of vouchers, which should be redeemable at any of these private sector institutions...
— Delivering the Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant Memorial Lecture in New Delhi in June 2003

...Reality is what you make and not what it is. In Infosys, in the early ‘90s, people would come to me and say, ‘No, no, no, it is impossible here, because you know we are not in Singapore; look at this, look at that.’ I would tell them reality is what we make it to be. Reality in India is bad roads, reality in Singapore good roads. Reality in India is bad airport; reality in Singapore is good airport.
— Address to the Youth of Bengal on August 20, 2002 in Kolkata

Governments in developing countries should act like catalysts rather than controlling agencies to facilitate development.... Governments must realise that public interest is not synonymous with public sector interest and unless that realisation dawns upon them, nothing good will happen. We have to remove that mindset and create opportunities... To me the difference between a developing and a developed country is only a question of mindset. I do think that developing countries, at least some of them, are doing well with a lot of efficiency and little corruption. India too has come a long way.
— Keynote address at the inaugural of the World Net Order: Bridging the Global Digital Divide’ in New York in June 2003



“To me difference between a developing and a developed country is only a question of mindset. Governments in developing countries should act like catalysts rather than controlling agencies. ”