Click to play videoBangalore: In a case similar to Mumbai’s, Bangalore too was deluged by rains last year and Bangaloreans are lucky the monsoons haven't quite hit them yet.
Like Mumbai, urban planners bemoan the lack of planning and inadequate infrastructure in Bangalore.
Population is perhaps one thing that has grown more or at least as much as the Information Technology (IT) sector in Bangalore.
The city has seen a 3.2 per cent average annual increase in population in the last five years and more than 800 additional vehicles add to the clutter on its roads every single day.
"Bangalore is not planned for this amount of traffic. It's good for seven to eight lakh vehicles because the roads are narrow and congested, while buildings and industries have grown,” says the advisor to the government, traffic and transportation engineering, Professor M N Sreehari.
"The solution is to look at the new master plan for Bangalore, to open out more areas around the city, to build an outer peripheral road, a bigger ring road, to improve the internal ring road and create high quality employment. We need a metro railway, a public transport system. You cannot and shouldn’t stop growth,” explains chief financial officer of Infosys, Mohandas Pai.
Despite that, India's IT hub woke up last October morning—flooded, marooned and shocked.
"There is tremendous urban sprawl in Bangalore, something which I haven't seen in any other city. Part of the main reason is the planning decisions taken for the CDP, 1995. What they allowed was a higher Floor Area Ratio (FAR) outside the city which is less dense and allowed lesser FAR in the heart of the city," says an urban planner, George Kuruvilla.
Like every other city, Bangalore too has a master plan. But urban planners say, there is a huge gap between plans on paper and the reality on the ground.
So unless the master plan 2015 is implemented well, it will remain, like its predecessors, an expensive government exercise.
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