{"id":1038325,"date":"2026-09-24T09:50:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1038325"},"modified":"2026-09-24T10:27:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:57:01","slug":"india-must-decentralise-rd-to-create-jobs-beyond-major-cities-sridhar-vembu-zoho-co-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/24\/india-must-decentralise-rd-to-create-jobs-beyond-major-cities-sridhar-vembu-zoho-co-founder\/","title":{"rendered":"India must decentralise R&amp;D to create jobs beyond major cities: Sridhar Vembu, Zoho Co-Founder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], September 23 (ANI): India needs a more decentralised development model that takes R&amp;D investment and sophisticated manufacturing beyond major cities to the district level, creating high-quality jobs in rural areas and reducing the need for young people to migrate to urban centres, Zoho Co-Founder and Chief Scientist Sridhar Vembu said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking to ANI on the sidelines of Zoholics India 2026, Vembu said R&amp;D-led employment and sophisticated small-scale manufacturing could play an important role in driving rural development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], September 23 (ANI): India needs a more decentralised development model that takes R&amp;D investment and sophisticated manufacturing beyond major cities to the district level, creating high-quality jobs in rural areas and reducing the need for young people to migrate to urban centres, Zoho Co-Founder and Chief Scientist Sridhar Vembu said on Wednesday. Speaking to ANI on the sidelines of Zoholics India 2026, Vembu said R&amp;D-led employment and sophisticated small-scale manufacturing could play an important role in driving rural development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038348,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038325\/revisions\/1038348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}