Endorsing Narayana Murthy's advice, lawyer-politician Manish Tewari said that several public representatives like him work 12-15 hours a day without taking a day off.
Riding the wave of this discussion, Hyderabad-based comedian Vivek Muralidharan, during his recent show at Guruswamy Centre in the city, humorously decoded the concept to see if the 70-hour week suggestion was possible
The call to return to work for a minimum number of days comes after Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy's proposed formula of Indian youth working for 70-hours-a-week stirred a controversy.
During a podcast, Narayana Murthy had said that if India wants to compete with developed economies that have made remarkable progress in recent decades, youngsters should work for 70 hours a week.
Narayana Murthy's proposed 70-hour workweek typically translates to 12-hour shifts for a six-day work week or a 14-hour shift for a five-day work week.
He said Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao had emerged as a role model for others in the country with the implementation of Rythu Bandhu scheme in Telangana State.
The Infosys Prize 2020 for Life Sciences was awarded to Rajan Sankaranarayanan from CCMB, Hyderabad for fundamental contributions towards understanding one of the most basic mechanisms in biology
