Modi gets a rousing reception from women IT professionals

Saudi Gazette report Riyadh — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday visited an all-women Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) training center and interacted with Saudi women IT professionals there. “For the world it is considered to be a main headline news that in Riyadh today I am meeting those IT professionals who I can say today represent the glory of Saudi Arabia,” the prime minister said to the chant of Modi, Modi, by the women professionals. He spent around 40 minutes at the center and even posed for selfies. “All of you must come to India, I assure you a very warm reception. The atmosphere I am witnessing here today has the potential to give a strong message to the world,” Modi said. “In this very competitive world today, if we are to progress then all forces have to progress together and have to move ahead and in it when I say forces, we are talking not only natural resources but also human resources. And in human resources, human power plays a very important role. If the capacity of the woman are built and they are linked with the development process, then development of any country is speeded exponentially,” the prime minister said. “I would also like to heartily congratulate TCS that in India they have set up a training center which trains young men and women, and those trained men and women, go out in the digital world and empower the entire world,” he said, promoting India's IT power. Modi stressed that in the IT profession, India has made its place in the world. “I have one suggestion, I have seen that in governance and for transparency, technology has a very big role to play and for me e-governance is easy, economic and effective governance. And I myself try my level best to update myself with technology and if you want any information in real time about India, me and the selfies that you took along with me today, and for all information, please download the Narendra Modi app,” Modi said. Modi was welcomed by Tata group chairman Cyrus Mistry and the TCS CEO & MD N. Chandrasekaran amid thunderous applause and cheering from more than 1,000 women. TCS established the first all-women technology services center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 2013. Today it employs 1,000 women, 85 percent of whom are Saudi women professionals. The TCS All-Women Centre provides specialized finance and accounting, human resources, materials supply and IT services.