Degradation of Bangalore Lakes

The effluent of the affluent

Bangalore, the silicon valley of India, has seen unprecedented growth of the IT industry in the last 12 to 15 years. This meant large scale influx of talent pool into the city taking a toll on the infrastructure, which was not growing at any pace, let alone at the same pace. Private builders stated building exclusive software parks for IT companies and apartments targeted at the IT workers and one such case is discussed in this paper.

Bagmane builders started construction of Bagmane Technology Park in the year 2001 in a 30 acre land in the periphery of Bangalore for various companies like Iflex technologies, Motorola, Texas Instruments, Samsung and Hewlett Packard. The construction land was in a marshy place with relatively small lakes all around. With the techpark poised to employ more than fifteen thousand well paid techies in the technology sector by 2005, a series of small time builders started building apartment complexes in the adjoining village by the name Kaggadasapura. Agricultural land of the village was sold by farmers attracted by quick money. The village of Kaggadasapura, with a few kutcha roads soon saw an unplanned growth of apartments with absolutely no civic amenities