All for a better Bangalore: techies take to civic leadership programme

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Young IT professionals usually wonder how to spend their weekends differently. A group of more than 60 individuals in Bangalore are showing the way. These professionals have enrolled for a nine month course to be trained in civic leadership. The Bangalore Political Action Committee or BPAC, a citizen's forum in Bangalore headed by Biocon CMD Dr Kiran Mazumdar Shaw and former Infosys board member Mohandas Pai, has started an 'incubation programme' to involve professionals into becoming corporators for a better Bangalore. (Read more)

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