Making Of India’s Own Silicon Valley: Bangalore

Bangalore, also known as Bengaluru, is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. The city is popularly called as Silicon Valley of India. It is true because it is home to numerous national and international corporations and almost half of the country’s IT business worth 50 billion dollars operates from this city.

Base For A Successful Career

If you belong from West Bengal and are looking forward to pursuing a worthy career in the engineering field post the completion of engineering from BP Poddar Institute of Management and Technology, which is one of the best IT college in Kolkata, Bangalore is the city to head to.

You will definitely get a good IT job in any of the leading companies in the city as candidates who have pursued engineering from best/top B.Tech colleges are always preferred here.

Rise As Silicon Valley

The rise of Bangalore as an IT hub began in the 1980s. Many top AICTE approved IT college opened up their branches in the city. Many international companies also made their way to Bangalore, in which, Texas instruments was the first foreign company to do so.

Later, many of India’s leading software companies like INFOSYS, WIPRO, Mphasis, HCL technologies and HAL made their base in Bangalore. This could be a reason enough for Engineering and IT graduates from leading colleges like BP Poddar to seek professional positions in Bangalore.

The highly educated workforce also adds to the worth of the company at the leading IT companies in the city. This has motivated national and international players in the information technology sector to make a move to Bangalore.

The input costs and salaries which are paid to the talented workforce are obviously a quarter of what is paid in the United States of America. This coupled with the ease of doing business due to the liberal policies of the Government of India in general and Government of Karnataka, in particular, has motivated IT players to look at options in Bangalore. These factors have fueled the rise of Bangalore as an IT city which is now popularly known as Silicon Valley.

The Indian engineers who used to migrate to countries like the United States of America too have been a witness to this transformation and are coming back to their motherland with a vision of contributing to their country. Many have set up their entrepreneurial ventures in the city and serve clients in the United States of America while being in Bangalore.

All these have added to the success of the Indian IT industry and made Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of India.