On Friday 26 Sep 2008 2:56:38 pm Carol Upadhya wrote: > Hi -- A debate on Bangalore's future: > > > > http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/radjou/2008/09/bangalore-in-2025-global-in >nov.html?loomia_si=t0:a3:g4:r4:c0
"Bangalore's IT" dream grew on the need to set up Government funded electronics factories in Bangalore in an earlier era. But "Bangalore" today is no longer the Bangalore of the past. Bangalore, like all Indian cities is becoming a megacity that is expanding along highways. Just like "sentiment" made people retain the "Mumbai" in Navi Mumbai, new areas of Bangalore will not be Bangalore at all. Delhi of course seems to have figured this out and now has places like "Noida' and "Gurgaon" that seem to be animals that are different from Delhi. If you are continuously expanding a city by building whatever needs to be built at the periphery, then what actually gets built will depend on what is necessary for the time. IT has been necessary for some time now, and the future may demand something else. The trick may be in predicting what that something else is and getting a head start. The first people to get that head start have been the real estate speculators backed by inside knowledge in the government. The borders of Bangalore have been expanded hugely and property prices extending up to the border with Tamil Nadu and Andhra are increasing from dirt cheap to cheap. Early entrants wil be blessed with very low land costs. If it comes to manufacturing I foresee a future for Bangalore in Aerospace and the heavy power sector. Maybe automobiles - of the clean kind. Just a guess. But while competition is necessary, I don't really care if Hyderabad or Chennai steal a march over Bangalore. A one city country is the quivalent of a one horse town. shiv
