Emergency meeting for Bangalore’s traffic nightmare forces, increase in trade threat. Bengaluru-Nuz News

The Karnataka government on Saturday convened an emergency high-level meeting in Bengaluru, threatening to move from the city from growing complaints, protests and even companies.

The high-level emergency meeting will include top officials of the newly formed Greater Bangalore Authority and will address issues with IT corridors including Sarjapur and Ilal Junctions.

“This is a serious problem and being addressed, but it seems that it requires more book action. Civil is in weapons and social media is being used, need to work rapidly and more efficiently. The monsoon is also hindering the work, but the government has done its best to resolve the issue.

Business leaders have repeatedly highlighted how poor roads and inadequate citizens of Bengaluru are reducing daily life. Experienced figures such as Mohandas Pai and Kiran Majumdar-Shaw, along with senior officials of firms located in the city’s IT groups, continuously mark the problems. Employees face endless traffic snarl and delay in reaching their offices, some companies openly considering the operation moving elsewhere. Andhra Pradesh, in fact, has been wooing potential investors away from the city by promising smooth infrastructure.

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivkumar stressed that the government is committed to correct the issue. “We are working to make Bangalore pit-free. Citizens and police are helping us by reporting problems. Money has been released, and we are sure that the work is completed.”

But the opposition leaders disagree. BJP leaders have accused the Congress government of “destroying brand Bengaluru” of mismanagement and corruption. Opposition R Ashok alleged, “Rain and a magic of Bengaluru are filled, repetition of pits, ambulances are stranded, and citizens are suffering. It is the face of wrong way of Congress.”

The center of this crisis is Bengaluru, but a major pressure point is a 19 km outer ring road between KR Puram Metro Station and Silk Board. This corridor alone is home to over 500 IT firms, which provides employment to about 9.5 million professionals in high-paying jobs. It generates close to Rs 1.5 lakh crore in exports every year, which contributes billions to foreign currency. Inner sources in the industry insisted that every one kilometer of this road costs about one billion dollars in foreign currency – an unmatched contribution with any other 15-20 km stretch in the country.

Nevertheless, despite such economic importance, the outer ring road is crippled with basic failures. Crowd roads, floods during rains, and lack of reliable public transport disappoint both companies and their employees. Experts have warned that without immediate corrective measures, Bengaluru risk losing its standing as IT capital, scouting for options in rival states already with businesses.

Industry veterans say that eight million people near ORR use this stretch, which holds a 93 million square foot office place. There is no other road in the world with 93 million square feet of workpiece and eight lakh employees. Nothing like this exists anywhere else – and yet, despite this scale, the rule has completely failed.

Pai and Mazumdar-Shaw had expressed fresh concern about the condition of roads around the premises of Google India. Taking it on social media, Pai directly appealed to IT Minister Priyank Kharge: “Minister @Priyankkharge please intervene and help. @Googleindia Campus is the pride of Bengaluru here. Please help in that area,” He wrote, Shaw, Shivkumar and Yulu co-founder RK Misra wrote.

The voice of the industry argues that neither the state nor the Center has kept pace with rapid development of the corridor. Their demands include fast-tracking metro work, strengthening arterial links to make traffic easier, implementing flood-control systems and building reliable world-class bus services. Some have suggested chopper services from the airport and have given tax exemption for carpooling as short -term measures.

“People do not feel how important this road is. Many people are also stuck in their work, while the government is seen far away. The Chief Minister and their so -called guarantee have been handed over by the government for free of cost by Rs 60,000 crore, but when it comes to fixing the infrastructure, there is no money. Everyone is angry, everyone is a total deranged.

Highlighting the cost of inactivity, Zippy CEO Madhav Kasturia claimed in a viral linkedIn post that India loses more than Rs 60,000 crore traffic jams and pit-affected roads annually, spending more against Pakistan against Pakistan. Kasturia wrote, “Governments may continue to tweet ‘smart cities’. The truth is that we are walking on dumb roads,” Kasturia wrote, explaining how delay and logical breakdown is droughting the economy.

He claimed to exit the Outer Ring Road after nine years after “unbearable” traffic, citing the letter of Blackbuck co-founder Rajesh Yabji. “It’s business, leaving a city,” he commented. Later, Yawaji clarified that he was transferring and not leaving within Bengaluru.

Data reinforces these concerns. Bengaluru is ranked in the third fastest city in the world, with an average travel speed of 10 km in 34 minutes. The fare of Mumbai and Delhi is slightly better, while Tokyo covers the same distance in only 12 minutes. The average Indian urban traffic is about 59 minutes one way, which is lost two hours per worker every day. Multiplicated in 100 million professionals, damage in productivity spread to several tens of crores.

Meanwhile, Shivkumar has said that his government is “committed to solving the issues of Bangalore’s pit”.

Defending his administration, he announced that the dangers of companies going out to the state would not be pressured in action. Shivkumar responded to the comments by Blackbalk founder, saying, “If he is uncomfortable due to investing or being here, he is not happy with the work, he is free to go, but he cannot catch the government for ransom,” Shivkumar said while responding to the comments by Blackbuck founder.

Shivkumar also pointed to the ongoing efforts. “While the opposition is busy in politics, we are working on reducing the daily struggles of the Bengalurians. About 7,000 pits have already been repaired and the work continues at more than 5,000. Citizens and police are actively helping our government by reporting places of problems across the city. Make life safe and smooth for our people.

However, the opposition is incredible in its criticism. Its leaders have announced that “the brand is bleeding from Bangalore under CM @Siddaramaiah & DCM @dkshivakumar.” A statement read: “Rain and DCM DK Shivkumar’s brand Bangalore’s only magic is reduced to flooded roads, pits, stranded citizens, stopping ambulances and fleeing companies. He is busy in vote-bank politics.

For Bengalurians, political defects sports mean very little. Every day, they continue inch through gridlock traffic, dodging pits that have become a part of the city’s own technical parks.

The uproar over the city’s collapse infrastructure has reached a point where the alarm bell is ringing not only among the citizens but also in the technical industry, which maintains the state’s economy.

“I have asked for three days in a line of work from home in this entire monsoon season. The roads are so bad, the pit roads are making it worse. I lose energy by the time when I am in the office and back,” Prasana Rao explained, who works in a cluster.

Praveen Malik, who moved to Bangalore with a new job a few weeks ago, is trying to find out his commut time. “I end in the office later every day because I am unable to predict the traffic congestion near Marathahalli. Sometimes I stare at the signal for about 30 minutes, and when it turns green, it is only 2 minutes and most vehicles are unable to pass within that time. If you look around, everyone is complaining, because it is a mehme,” they said.

A group of residents of Sarjapur -Chikkablandur region planned a silent protest as they said that there was enough, but the lack of permission forced them to withdraw it. Members of the Camelum United Citizen Forum said, “We are planning to work for the office or bicycle as a means of final hope as roads are now so bad and unnatural.”