Thursday, July 17, 2008

Plight of City: Bangalore

The garden city of India : Bangalore. A popular general knowledge question during the primary school level and is part of many primary school quizzes.

Not too far ago, the Information Technology revolution came to India. It came with promises of great wealth and power. Region politics played their part, fate did the rest. The most congenial and convenient location is Bangalore partly because of the climate and partly because it is a well known British settlement during the colonial India. Slowly multinational companies started to come. They are promptly followed by the Indian players as well. It is the hot destination for young and aspiring Indian youth. IT Professionals working in Bangalore got better matches and better dowry(Dowry system is still practiced in India although it is illegal). Naturally more and more people got attracted to it and the quest for holy grail began.

With the liberalization and globalization more and more companies flood in to the country. First to come were the call centers,which outsourced the gunk and mindless business of customer support. As the cost per employee for the company is less, India attracted many company call centers. It required a lot of man power. Our former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayeeji said "What not can a country of One Billion People do?". Ya they can do many things and one of them is call center business. Indian players started and made deals with various market players relating to a field and started customer support under roof housing hundreds and thousands of people. Traditionally Bangalore is a retirement option for the reasons above said. The infrastructure is good enough for the small pockets of people coming every year.
The city can't facilitate the thousands and eventually lakhs of people coming in the mad rush for money.

1 comment:

CodeNameV said...

well, your observations are right....and the logical question what can be done abt it?....you have to realize that the country's growth is centralised around these big cities.....not even numebring 10!!!...so it is natural that this happens.....i would like to see what solutions u propose!!!