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Fixing India’s IT capital, as Bangalore is also known, is among the biggest challenges faced by the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government in Karnataka. The state government has been talking of bringing about a change through better planning and more private participation.
S. Suresh Kumar, the state’s urban development minister speaks about how his government intends to achieve this.
Excerpts:
Your government has constituted the Agenda for Bangalore Infrastructure Development (ABIDE).
What will this panel do?
The intention behind ABIDE is to take practical steps that will make a better Bangalore.
ABIDE is coming out with a policy statement about what exactly Bangalore needs and how exactly we should move forward to implement those needs. We have observed that there was no coordination between the principal agencies (for civic affairs, transport and water supply). That is the minimum thing needed. It’s a time-bound programme and we want to achieve all these things in six or eight months.
How is Bangalore still attracting investments when Chennai and Hyderabad too are aggressive in this regard?
The potential of Bangalore lies in the knowledge capital that we have… May be coupled with that, the climate also plays a role, unlike Chennai or Hyderabad. This is not a new development...it started at least one-and-a-half decades ago. We are continuously improving upon that. In a way, even without the government taking any specific steps in the earlier days, Bangalore had remained an investor-friendly city, not only for IT giants but also for (the) manufacturing sector.
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