India is at the moment suffering from its worst monsoon floods for decades. Whilst the focus is on North-East India, flooding is occurring around the country, including both Mangalore and Mysore - both close to Bangalore.
I have been in Bangalore before during extreme flooding. It totally cripples the City and sadly, people are often drowned. This is one very visible aspect of some of Bangalore's chronic infrastructure issues. Poor roading and pavements, inadequate drainage systems and a seemingly endless stream of new rural inhabitants into the City fringes, places immense pressures on the infrastructure that exists.
Both City and State claim to be facing up to these issues. There is no shortage of 'Action Plans'. The local Times of India once said. 'All Plans, No Actions'!
Yet against this background, the IT sector continues to expand at an exponential rate. It employs hundreds of thousands of designers, developers and engineers. Over the next three days, I hope to blog about how HBI Software manages to operate in this testing environment. For despite the challenges, the future for the IT sector in Bangalore remains strong.
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