Hello Readers
How are you today?
Work hard,
work harder, work with efficiency, work in cooperative spirit
Work with a
team spirit to make your country great, self-supporting and strong.
-Sir M Visvesvaraya
The
greatest civil engineer ever lived in India.
They say a plan is first blotted in mind and then on a sheet of
paper and then they bring it to life.
In fact, India is known to be the center of architectural marvel
and the Aw aspiring temples, church and Sufi architecture and other learning centers.
The I.T( Information Technology) capital of the country
"Bengaluru" buzzing with young minds trying to solve the analytical
assignments challenged to them inside the glass doors of their workplace.
Well, it is rightly quoted by many that, "Bengaluru is the
silicon valley of India".
That looks very good on papers, but that is the ground reality of
the commuters!
What are the perils and pitfalls of the industry, the ripples
created on the infrastructure of this once beautiful city?
Usually a motivational blogger and what they call the optimistic
types I choose to be realistic and grim
about this one.
Starting in the 1980s, Karnataka emerged as the information
technology capital of the country. A total of 1973 companies in Karnataka are
involved in Information Technology related business, including big firms like
Infosys and Wipro who have their headquarters in Bangalore. The origin of the
growth of the software industry in Karnataka seems to have been the entry of
Texas Instruments which was the first multinational to set up base in Sona
Tower, Millers Road, Bangalore in 1985.
Texas Instruments was searching for a location to set up their
overseas development center in India in the early 1980s. They first looked at
the states of Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, but when both states refused
permission, Karnataka was approached with the condition that land allotted must
be near an airport.
The then chief minister of Karnataka Gundu Rao agreed to their
terms and granted land near the H.A.L. Airport in Bangalore. Texas Instruments
currently has a large facility in Bagmane Tech Park in Bangalore near the
airport.
There were many factors conducive to the development of the
software industry in Karnataka state.
One factor is the presence of large numbers of top-grade science
and engineering institutions like IISc, NITK, B.M.S. College of Engineering,
B.V.B., Malnad College of Engineering MSRIT, N.I.E., SJCE, RVCE, PESIT, SDMCET
and around 200 engineering colleges.
The software industry
requires large numbers of skilled engineers which are regularly churned out of
the engineering colleges in Karnataka.
The presence of Public
sector undertakings like B.E.L., H.A.L., BHEL, I.T.I. And BEML gave ready
access to manpower as well as trial opportunities of the newly developed
software. There were many advanced laboratories like N.A.L. and ISRO in and
around Bangalore which provided necessary basic knowledge required for software
development.
The successive state governments have been proactive in providing
essential facilities for the growth of the industry. The salubrious climate of
Bangalore also helps in the growth of the software industry there. ( numbers
and names Wikipedia)
When we come to the post-2006 era, when large companies like
Infosys, H.C.L.- Tech Wipro, Satyam had passed the sigmoid it was sure that the
Bengaluru will become the future I.T. hub of India.
The effects
There have been both positive and negative effects of the boom.
Well for any onlooker it is evident that the per capita income of the state has
risen, the software engineers earn the salaries at the beginning of the career
what their parents earned during the time of their superannuation.
The downside
There has been a decline of quality engineers passing out of
colleges, they are just manufactured engineers who are designed to clear
corporate interviews. The Government too has made getting a government job like sour grapes which can't be reached.
Even though the earning capacity of an individual increased substantially, they do not know what to with the remuneration so technically
there is a trend towards financial illiteracy.
The
apocalypse effect!
Now the once garden city has become a concrete city with just huge
megalithic apartments all around us! Definitely, jobs draw population, and that
population brings its own needs, and that has to be catered.
But there is a point when the land cannot take much of human
interventions which have led to catastrophes in the recent past examples, flooding
of roads, the low laying areas being submerged during rains.
We, the citizens, don't speak much and try to be more and more
supportive of solving the civic problems by ourselves. Still, if the public
works department is in a state of apathy, with the unplanned development of
infrastructure, I think we are in a state of emergency.
Recently I read an article where Bengaluru one of the well-planned
cities in Asia has the worst traffic management in the world surpassing even
New Delhi.
My reaction was not surprising, but it was disappointment and
shallow, imagine you are trying to build sub-urban trains, metro rails. As a
result, you block roads, but are we living in a superman era where everything
can work as a click?
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I took this picture last week! to show the poor utilities given to workmen, in this case they were mixing
water using paper cups! To complete a footpath construction!
Why is there is no planning, and what an everyday commuter can
witness is just apathy on the road and feel depressed about it.
We all as the daily users of the roads and infrastructure who
generate economy for this country should definitely start questioning the
authorities about their plans and deadlines! And question their logic and
timing of destroying roads and trees!
Let me know your thoughts on this all-important one.
Thanks a lot for your time.
Helios.
