ISRO, IISc, HAL and IT Parks as well as water shortage, traffic, language conflict, all these things have a common connection. On one hand, people call Bengaluru the Silicon Valley of India and on the other hand, people have started calling it a man-made urban disaster. Where people are not even able to get basic necessities. Thousands of people chasing water tankers, taking fewer verses, sweating out in long queues and even missing work to store enough water for the day. What was once the garden city has become an urban desert on one side. Foreign investment in the country is at an all-time high and Bengaluru cannot miss this wave, but on the other hand, the condition of basic infrastructure is so bad that Bengaluru is one of the most congested cities in the world and the extremism spread here in the name of language. Because of this, leave alone the foreign investors, even the local investors are now scared of going there, but how did all this happen, how did Bengaluru become the Silicon Valley of India from a British entonment and is now becoming an urban disaster? The whole story behind this is in today's news. In this video you will understand. Let's see Once Known as the Pensioners' Paradise Bengaluru has Transformed into a City Plagued by Distress India's Very Own Silicon Valley has Run Out of Water According to the report, BBMP and 125 out of about 800 lakes in Bengaluru city. The lakes that are there have dried up. The city's residents are drinking nearly 1680 million liters of water every day. 20 9 minutes. He also started the Mysore Economic Conference in 1911 for industrial growth in Datchi. Something else also happened in the same year, Jamshed Ji Tata. To fulfill his 13-year-old dream of setting up a world class university in India, he spends half of his wealth and approaches Lord Curzon with a proposal to convert his 14 buildings and four properties in Bombay into a university. He was destined to become the new Governor General of India, but something else was written. First, Lord Curzon said that there are not so many qualified people in India who would like to study in such a university and if they start studying, then the jobs which the British are giving. He would be overqualified for that but Jamshed ji did not back down from his words and said that Bombay was not the right place for such a university. He told Professor William Ramsay to travel all over India and find some other place for 10 weeks. After visiting India, the professor said that Bangalore would be perfect for this university. Now the problem was that Bangalore used to be a British Cantonment at that time and apart from this it was a sleeping place where not much activities were taking place like Bombay and Bombay's Tata people had to spend a lot of money in setting up a university outside. The British did not give any special support, otherwise Jamshed ji reached the Maharaja of Mysore State. He knew that no princely house would say no to such a project and it happened. The same Maharaja of Mysore immediately agreed to give ₹ lakh and an annual grant of ₹ 50,000 for the construction of 371 acres of land in Bengaluru and in a similar manner, in 1911, India got the Indian Institute of Science, which is still used for research and development in the entire country. It is a premier institute, I had told you about it briefly in the Tata video also, but here I told you in so much detail because this was the moment which started a chain reaction of opening of industries and companies in Bengaluru, just 5 years later. Mysore Sandal Soap Factory opens here. Government's own porcelain and electrical factory is also set up here. By 1940, IISc becomes a premier institute of India and the big scientists of India start coming out from here and this Noticing the progress, another industrialist of that time, Wal Chand Hirachand, wanted to set up an aircraft manufacturing company in India. At that time, the World War was also going on, hence the British were also in great demand for so many talents from IISc. In view of this, he opened his own company 5 km away, which was named Hindustan Aircraft Limited, which is today called HAL. After a few years, India got independence and then HAL was nationalized but the ecosystem of IISc was still getting stronger. Due to this, Bengaluru It started becoming more popular. The reason for this popularity was also its strategic location. It is a coastal city and far away from the land border with any neighboring country, hence in case of war, it is much safer than Delhi or Mumbai, hence so much talent and safe location. Due to this , in 1969, another important institute was opened here named Apart from this, PSUs like Indian Telephone Industries, Hindustan Machine Times i.e. HMT and Bharat Electronics Limited i.e. BL had also opened in Bengaluru, but among all these companies, Bharat Electronics Limited i.e. BL was very important for the government because it is used in defense vehicles and items. They were manufacturing the electronic parts to be manufactured. Defense of the country is our goal. India's pride. BL had a problem that many of their employees who were working on confidential projects lived far away from the company due to which their secure compromise . There was a danger of this happening, so BL planned to build a township near its head quarter and gave the responsibility of this to RK Balaga. RK Balaga was an electrical engineer who had done his Masters and PhD from IISc, after which he stayed in the US for 6 years. He had worked for years, he had also gone to Japan and Paris and worked on some projects. He built a colony of 14000 houses near BL, which became so successful that after this he was allowed to build many big townships one after the other. Orders started coming in and because of such townships, Bengaluru also came to be known as a retirement paradise, but RK Balaga ji had realized that India now needs to create a hi-tech cluster like Silicon Valley so that the Like America, private companies can also be promoted because till now most of the government companies were coming to Bengaluru. India's first electronic city finally starts in Bengaluru in 1978. Electronic City got a very good response from the industry and many big companies The companies opened their offices in their office suites and started manufacturing mini computers here in collaboration with IISc. In 1983, seeing the business friendly policies of Conix, Narayan Murthy also brought Infosys to Bangalore, which was established just two years ago. The biggest help that the government did in our industry was started in Pune in some way they stood out of ours they decentralized the whole thing they removed licensing they allowed us to take all our decisions in our board room instead of going To The Electronic Nikethon Day After Day After Day That To Me Is An Extraordinary Help The Government Has Done And In 1985, American Company Tex Instruments Becomes The First Multinational Company To Come To Bengaluru. They Also Setup India's First Software Design Center In Bengaluru. Only 3 years after this, in 1991, that thing happened which was going to change the fate of the entire country i.e. Liberalization Reform. 30 years ago, a phase started for the Indian economy which changed the fate of India forever. Bengaluru benefited a lot from this. It is available because now foreign companies could come to India easily and export of software related services also became easy. Due to this, look at the data of os9 1, 13 software companies of Bengaluru had exported software worth Rs 16 crores with 2000 workers. But in the next few years, this changed completely. Within just 2 years, they had made exports worth Rs. 56 crores and in the next five years, this number of exports had reached Rs. 3500 crores. The period between 2001 and 2010 was the Golden Decade of After this, Bangalore came to be known not as a garden city but as a Silicon Valley of India. Now Bangalore is increasingly being called the Silicon Valley of India thanks to its buzzing ecosystem of tech startups which are living. Establish Economic Hubs like Mumbai for Bangalore I was having an interesting discussion with someone who told me that there are close to 400 e-commerce startups in Koramangala alone situated in about 10 square kilometer 20 square meter space where there are 400 e-commerce startups and most Of them, they have raised a minimum of Rs 1 crore in funding. By 2022, more than 40 lakh people were working in 1400 IT firms of Karnataka, who have exported software worth Rs 630000 crore. This number is so big, you can guess it from this. That it is around 40% of the total exports of the whole of India. Now till now we have seen all the good things, we have also understood how Bangalore became the Silicon Valley of India from a British Cantonment, but everything is not a rosy picture here . Another story was being played out in the background which perhaps was not as good. This story is the story of illegal and rapid urbanization in Bengaluru. Last year's floods have completely exposed the entire urban planning of Bengaluru. And if Africa Is Battling a Doubt India's Tech Capital Is Drowning in Floods We are talking about Bengaluru The Silicon Valley of India It has been hit by record rains Water has entered Homes Lakes are overflowing Dress are flooded Schools and colleges have been shut The city of 13 million people has come to a stand still in floods The reason was not just climate change or the poor drainage system of the city, but its main reason was the unauthorized constructions done on the valleys and lake beds of the city. Bengaluru is a city 900 meters high above sea level, that is, in a way you can consider it a hill station. But here there is no major water source of its own like a river, that is why there was only one solution for water for domestic and agricultural purposes since ancient times. The lake here is the oldest lake of Bengaluru. If you see, it is one of them. Bellandur Lake which was built in the eighth century during the time of Western Ganga Dynasty, after this many lakes and water storage tanks were built here during the time of different umpires who came. Kempe Gowda ji, the governor of Vijayanagara Empire and founder of modern Bengaluru, built the canal. A very sophisticated water system was developed for the city through Wells and Cascading Lakes. This provided proper water supply to Bengaluru and also made conservation of water easy. The system of Cascading Lakes worked in such a way that the lake city In the high altitude areas, when it was filled, the water due to overflow would come to the lake below through the West Naval Canal and then from there the water would go to people's fields in Wales. Releasing the importance of this system, the later Rulersong Tank, Miller Tank and Hisar Gatta Lake were built in the 19th century, but the so called modern system destroyed the entire system. There are four major valleys in Bengaluru, one of which is Look at this photo of Hebbal Valley. It has blue lakes and green valleys. These can also be called natural canals from where water flows to other lakes. Look at the top side, Kendriya Vihar is situated just below Yalaka Lake, so it is obvious. There are only 32000 such layouts that float over the lake during the rains, which means such plots which are illegal according to the government, now cannot even be demolished because first the Municipal Corporations have taken bribe and given permission for illegal construction here. Now News From Karnataka Polluted and Dying Lakes Demolition Drives to Save Them That Resulted in Angry Residents and Officials in Trouble This is a Story of Bangalar Water Bodies They Have Been Drawing Attention in the Recent Past To All These Rapid Building on Lake Pads Has Reduce the Catchment of Water Adding To pollution for now the dam has been stopped but commercial structures are still being broken down. It is also clear that there has been no clear policy on saving these lakes but when pressure comes from above, some demolitions are also done but it grinds down. Every time only the common man, now look at the bottom side, Manyata Tech Park has been built which is exactly on the way of the canal. It is clearly visible in this that when there is an over flood in the upper lake, water will come only in the lower areas but despite this the entire The entire colony of Colleges and Companies is built in such valleys. There are more than 6000 such illegal layouts built all over Bengaluru. See this photo. This is the map of urbanization of Bengaluru from 1973 to 2020. The red areas are those where illegal construction has taken place and this is the rapid And I am talking about uncontrolled urbanization, now we got to see another big consequence of this poor urban planning this year. People did legal construction but did not do anything for water conservation and that is why Bengaluru today is an urban concrete desert. Look, Bengaluru depends on two sources for its water needs, one is Kaveri River and the other is ground water and both these sources are completely dependent on monsoon, but last year due to one week monsoon, 16000 people of Bengaluru were deprived of water. Out of the borewells, 7000 borewells had dried up and in some areas of Bengaluru , there is no other source of water available other than borewells. On the other hand, if there is excessive rain , there is no lake left to conserve its water because the lake beds. Construction has been done in the lake and the few lakes that are left have been canalized and they have built a colony on the place where water used to flow naturally, that is why there is no way for water to come to the lakes that have dried up. The sewer systems are also not that well made, that is why even a little rain causes floods in the entire city. It goes because the city is actually built on a lake bed. On top of that, a different game of tanker mafia is going on here. Whenever the water level decreases, ask any Bangalorean and he will explain to you that rain is due to climate change. Inflow has also reduced. Last year, Karnataka received 18% less rainfall than the average, due to which only 26% water could be stored in the reservoir of Karnataka and now even more water is required in summer because the temperature in Bengaluru is very high. Already has reached its all time high Due to Rapid Dermalize, Bengaluru also has one of the worst traffic in the world Traffic in this Southern Indian city The Dreams of Becoming the Silicon Valley of India Hundreds of thousands of people reach their offices By calling through traffic like this on a daily basis, Bengaluru is the sixth most congested city in the world. According to this year's report, it takes on an average 28 minutes to travel 10 km in Bengaluru during peak traffic hours. In Bengaluru , it takes up to two hours to go just one and a half kilometres. If we look at the population in Bengaluru, it has grown by 164% between 2000 and 2015 and neither roads nor public facilities have been built to map this mega growth. You can see the transport impact in these 14 maps. In 1800 and 1900, Bengaluru followed a rectangular grid design, due to which there was no traffic congestion because in this design system there were many ways to reach the same point, but in 2000. Due to urban planning and unlimited construction, a star design system of roads has been formed in Bengaluru, due to which now only a few roads are left to reach point A from point B and hence there is a lot of traffic in them. Encroachment is also no less. People occupy half of the road in order to make their parking space and ramps, but those who do this forget that they too are going to walk on the road and by doing so, they too are going to face problems. The road which used to be double lane has become single lane, despite this, there has been a rise of 340 percent in car sales in Bengaluru this year and the reason for this is bad public transport. Although there is metro in Bengaluru, but the connectivity of metro in such areas is absolutely not. Where there is maximum traffic Tire Road is complete IT corridor but no metro connectivity is the city's bar but main way where it is needed It is not the heart of the city A Yes, there is no metro here, see the metro map of Bengaluru Take this and this is the metro map of Delhi . There are only two metro lines in Bengaluru which have 41 metro stations whereas in Delhi there are 228 metro stations in total 12 lines. According to some reports, due to the construction of the metro itself, the roads have become more narrow. And the traffic has increased even more because the metro work is never completed on time and the traffic on the road is increasing or the government may change every five years but all the issues I am telling you never change. These pillars were built here, we don't even remember when they were built. Work is starting today. Like now, some progress is visible. According to urban expert RK Mishra, ever since the new government has come, it has been against the previous government. They are busy in opening corruption cases while all the development works are at a standstill, neither have the contractors been paid nor have the pot holes been filled. According to them, all these works will be done only when the next elections are about to come but all these Despite the issues , what is the priority for the so called activists of Karnataka that Hindi and English boards should be removed in Bengaluru , Canada Raksha Ved Ke People in the Name of Activism and Saving Canada Culture and Hacking, Threatening People while Customers are Inside Stores Are smashing sign boards with stones and sticks and what not, but if I alone say anything on this then there will be a dispute, people who write 'don't come here' will come here and earn money and then speak ill of this city. There is so much problem, so soon as they come here. Why are you, brother, as much as DIGA has a hand in making Bengaluru, these outsiders also have a hand in it. The MNCs which are bringing so much revenue and tax to your city have also come from outside, but think for yourself. Who would like to setup their company in such a city where even the basic issues like water and traffic are not there and on top of that you are running hooliganism in the name of language in which business properties are being demolished, that is why I feel that They are so called activists. You need to direct your anger at the right place, rest of you people direct your opinion towards the comment section and I will meet you directly in the next video, till then take care Jai Hind Vande Mataram