By K. Sriram, Jt. Secretary - CREDAI
Whenever we try to analyse the growth of our city, we encounter several factors that have impacted its growth. The growth of a city depends on its ability to create employment and it usually comes from tourism, industry, services, educational institutions etc. Connectivity has been one of the biggest bug bears impacting our growth. In the tourism industry, the meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions (MICE) sector is growing at a healthy pace and our city is losing out on a lot of this business due to lack of proper connectivity. Same is the story with inbound international tourist groups. Domestic tourists are also habituated to having a direct air-link to their destination and avoid destinations that have a long tiring road journey. Entrepreneurs wanting to set up shop here will first look at accessibility and many big corporates have for long rued the lack of proper connectivity to our city and have been averse to invest here. Many entrepreneurs are also impacted by the lack of skilled and disciplined man power in our city.
