‘Disasters are bound to happen, the only solution is…’: Nitin Kamath asks small towns to act

Zerodha founder and CEO Nitin Kamath on Friday said that the only solution to the issues related to working in big cities is to keep many smaller cities at par with their economies. His remarks come amid talks over the floods in Bengaluru that have exposed the city’s infrastructure woes as big IT companies have sought to shift their offices to other locations.

“Most large Indian cities today were not built to handle the many people who live in them. Disasters are bound to continue. The only real solution was to replace many smaller cities with their economies,” Kamat said in a Twitter post that day. Have to put up with.” He added that more than 50 percent of Zerida’s workforce is living in smaller towns.

He said that moving to another big city is only a temporary solution and companies should motivate their teams to work from smaller cities. “If companies can afford to have teams work remotely or through small satellite offices, I think they should motivate teams to work in smaller towns and out of cities. In this way, the company problem Can play a role in the solution. Moving to another big city will only be a temporary solution.”

“There can be a significant increase in quality of life with more money spent, more savings, less time in traffic, better work-life balance, and more,” he said.

He said it was not a hypothesis, but solid data was collected from members of Zerodha’s team, who work out of small towns. “It is no longer just a hypothesis; Now we have enough data from our team, many of whom have moved to Mysore and Belagavi,” said Kamath.

The best part of moving out and working from a small town is that it can also help tackle climate change issues which can result in the creation of livelihoods. “Otherwise, money keeps circulating in the big cities, enticing everyone to migrate,” he said.

Kamath’s comments are in line with Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu, who said that developing lots of smaller cities is much cheaper and allows citizens to enjoy higher real incomes and lower taxes than mega cities like Bengaluru.

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