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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[@rajeshamazie]

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

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[@SenorSol]

Ditto for ALL Indian cities! Mumbai and Delhi are no better, if not worse.

[@samiuddinomer8154]

Same delhi mumbai bengaluru

[@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 of......13 million people! In this same timeframe China built the world's largest high speed rail network. It is what it is.

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[@zango2121]

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

[@sadenb]

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

[@mooskamoo]

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

[@5gods]

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 🎉🎉

[@user-rx7my4zo7c]

Take interview of kannadigas and in Kannada language

[@bhartiya8199]

If you proud to be Karnataka person then it's ok, but don't force to take interview in Kannada , this is social media , you are playing dirty politics in name of language

[@shashankc.r7947]

This is Urban vault right

[@Phjghh]

Boat valley of India.

[@Phjghh]

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

[@goolooggg9005]

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

[@nondajeevi5036]

Yawn! 💔

[@shreya1919]

Out of all you had only the bad things to highlight

[@suchithraraghavan5335]

Amchi mumbai.

[@AjmalPasha-ml3zr]

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

[@suchithraraghavan5335]

Amchi mumbai best

[@suchithraraghavan5335]

mumbai Take this opportnity race ahead

[@anuragpandey2635]

Travelling through local is horrible in Mumbai. The houses are very small and very expensive. It’s not at all a comfortable place to live

[@deepupradeep223]

Loot valley of India

[@SenorSol]

I thought that was the scam call centres in Delhi!

[@suchithraraghavan5335]

amchi mumbai

[@anirudh1645]

3rd world city

[@vinodkumarbalakrishna533]

get lost..don't come here..