Is Bengaluru’s dream of becoming ‘India’s Silicon Valley’ crumbling? | BBC News India

The southern Indian state of Karnataka goes to polls on May 10. More than half of the state's revenue comes from Bengaluru, also known as Bangalore, an IT hub that dreams of becoming India's Silicon Valley. But with the lack of basic infrastructure and Bengaluru's infamous traffic, is this dream dying? We spoke to some young people in the city to find out what they think.

Produced by Shubham Kishore
Filmed and edited by Kenz-Ul-Muneer
Voiceover by Nikita Mandhani

00:13 - Bengaluru's traffic problem
1:30 - Bengaluru metro project
2:00 - Bengaluru floods
2:10 - Bengaluru's water shortage
4:00 - Will Bengaluru's Silicon Valley dream come true?

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[SenorSol]

This is a shame as Bengaluru is essentially a nice city with nice people. It's the corruption and illegal construction that does for it, and also the fact that public transport simply hasn't kept up with the massive growth in population. Before 2013 Bengaluru's population was below 10 million, and it took ten years for the city to build a single metro line! As of today they've still only got two metro lines for a city million people! In this same timeframe China built the world's largest high speed rail network. It is what it is.

[rajeshamazie]

The biggest corrupt politicians and other syndicates have destroyed Bangalore city.

[sadenb]

Imagine how much the productivity will increase, if we better the public infrastructure

[zango]

North Bangalore is growing rapidly…water problems will be solved …..BBCs dream of Bangalore not becoming Silicon Valley is crumbling.

[mooskamoo]

Love the Hinglish in some of these interviews, casually drifting in and out of English and Hindi 😂

[goolooggg]

It's NO Silicon Valley, Bengaluru just BPOs, back offices, call centers, whatnot

[gods]

watching this makes me hungry for dosa masala .

When I resided there I visited Cubbon park every week . What a fantastic area . Multicultural too . When my channel gets big enough I’ll try to outsource the animating to Bangalore 🎉🎉

[s.p.]

The Congress govt of 1980and later competed with Andhrapradesh&Tamilnadu &Maharashtra to get silicon Valley status to banglore. Now same party's govt oppose silicon valley cosmopolitan outlook to banglore due to poor infrastructure and fear of non kannadigas outage in banglore.

[ssv.d]

Take interview of kannadigas and in Kannada language

[RakeshS]

Nobody is bothered to undust the roads

[AjmalPasha-mlzr]

I am in Bangalore but bjp do somach hindu muslim this all works go haidrabad

[Phjghh]

Free boating during monsoon. Monsoon is arriving very soon. Buy inflatable boat.

[shreya]

Out of all you had only the bad things to highlight

[suchithraraghavan]

mumbai Take this opportnity race ahead