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Mr. Kaniyar is project manager for phase II of a major building project for Surnandan Property Developments. Situated in Whitefields Technology Park to the south of Bangalore, the first building is already completed and has a floor space of almost two and a half acres,<\/p>\n

\u2026That\u2019s almost the size of 2 football pitches,\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

he explains,<\/p>\n

And there are eight floors. Phase II, for which you can see the foundations going in now, will be completed in three months and it\u2019s more or less identical to Phase 1. Although it is built by an Indian company and designed by Indian architects it will ultimately be occupied by an American company and they have a say in the type of the building that we build. Culturally, they are used to glass office buildings and that is what they want here, even though it will be occupied almost entirely by Indian workers. This type of building is, of course, totally impractical in Bangalore.<\/strong><\/p>\n

To begin with, we have\u00a0to use dark glass because\u00a0of the intensity and number\u00a0of hours of sunlight.\u00a0A consequence of this\u00a0is that artificial lighting\u00a0has to be used throughout\u00a0the day. The space still\u00a0heats up, which means\u00a0that they require air<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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conditioning throughout most of the year. We cannot draw that amount of power from the grid, so all of these types of buildings \u2013 and there are a great many now in Bangalore \u2013 all require their own power supply. So, if you look at any of these developments at Whitefields you will see very substantial diesel generators in operation which, apart from being very uneconomical, further add to the pollution problems we are experiencing here in Bangalore.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The city was originally built as a Cantonment by the British and subsequently became a retirement town – famous for its parks and quiet suburbs. Its infra-structure is totally unsuited to the volume of traffic it now experiences and many companies are rumoured to be moving away because of the congestion, although given the scale of building still continuing at Whitefields and other satellite towns, it is hard to believe that this is really happening.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\"buildersweb\"\n

Many visitors imagine that\u00a0the shanty towns they\u00a0see in metros like Bangalore\u00a0are slum housing for poor\u00a0people. However, while this is true in some cases,\u00a0they are also often camps\u00a0for itinerant workers\u00a0\u2013 the backbone of the\u00a0Indian economic miracle.\u00a0These people are often\u00a0seasonal workers and in Bangalore they may come\u00a0<\/strong>from states further north such as Orissa and Bihar. Farmers take up this seasonal work during the periods of the year that their crops are growing or when they are unable to work their own land due to summer heat or monsoons. Their status as land owners can complicate their relationships with their immediate superiors on the sites as a land owner is often of a higher caste than, for example, a site foreman.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This way of life also means that it is difficult for their children to receive any kind of consistent education. Because of the lack of accommodation in Bangalore itself and the inadequacy of the road to Whitefields, lodgings are being built on site to house the thousands of workers who are attracted to the IT boom in Bangalore.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\"chair\"\n

There is a shortage of facilities and entertainment here for these workers \u2013 so naturally they want to go into the city. As the road to the technology parks deteriorates it has become the focus of an ongoing dispute between the State of Karnataka and the IT companies, who consider it the states\u2019 duty to upgrade the road to take all the extra traffic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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