Information Technology firms that announced a boycott of the city’s annual IT exposition protesting poor infrastructure received support from the industry association NASSCOM, which said that their concerns were justified.
NASSCOM president Kiran Karnik told reporters that these companies were rightly concerned. “Some of them are very vocal and it’s good", he said.
Some of the IT firms based here recently announced that they would log out of the Bangalore IT.In 2005 (till last year Bangalore IT.Com) slated to be held here from October 26 to 29 to protest the government’s “apathy” towards infrastructure woes, particulary on the traffic front.
They said promise was held out last year that the government would do something to address the concerns, but it turned out to be hollow.
“We would like to see a great deal more of emphasis on quick and immediate action to improve infrastructure. Bangalore has become a pain-point and it’s affecting industries, not just IT alone,” Karnik said.
Traffic snarls and congestion have become a perennial problem in Bangalore, where road development and construction of flyovers have not kept pace with mutli-fold increase in the number of vehicles.
Roads connecting IT companies in and around Bangalore, in particular, witness bottlenecks that is testing the patience of IT companies, an IT official said.
Source: deccanherald.com
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