“Bangalore is bursting at its seams,” Suchit Bachalli tells me over the phone. “It is half as liveable today as it was 10 years ago.” The housing is extremely expensive and “for those who can afford it; it is hard to ignore the fact you don’t have drinking water out of your tap, you don’t have 24/7 power and you step out of your house into a traffic jam – it takes an hour and a half to do 10 – 14 KM.”
Unilog is based in Mysor, which is about three hours further South because, as Bachalli explains, “it feels like the Bangalore of the 80s. [Now] the government and policy makers need to consider moving out of Bangalore. The infrastructure of the city cannot take it anymore.” Yet Bachalli believes the problems with Bangalore run far deeper than simply overcrowding and congestion, they strike to the very heart of the ICT industry.
“The Indian IT industry is at an inflexion point,” says Bachalli. “I think that the model of providing job based services is in decline. That is my personal opinion and I’m sure there are other analysts who will disagree with me. But I believe it is [in] terminal [decline] because when the only value you offer is cost, systems are going to move to other locations where things are [even] cheaper and [even] better.”
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