Updated on: Oct 13, 2025 03:07 pm IST

A Bengaluru techie has urged the federal government to briefly shut down main IT parks to repair the town’s crumbling infrastructure. 

A Bengaluru techie’s social media publish urging the federal government to briefly shut down main IT parks to repair the town’s crumbling infrastructure has sparked a dialogue on-line. Taking to X, person Amarnath Shivashankar referred to as on the Karnataka authorities to invoke Business Continuity Plans (BCP) and mandate distant work for IT firms in order that restore work on Bengaluru’s roads and drainage methods could be fast-tracked.

An X publish has sparked a dialogue on Bengaluru’s infrastructure.(PTI)

“When IT firms on the Outer Ring Road, ITPL, Electronic City, Manyata Tech Park, Bagmane Tech Park, and so forth., went utterly distant for greater than a yr throughout Covid, they’ll try this once more if the federal government mandates them to take action. Employees are dropping productive hours throughout their commute,” Shivashankar wrote.

“Invoke the BCP, shut the IT parks for a couple of months, repair the roads and rain water drains, repair the damaged Infrastructure. Complete the flyover constructions, Procure extra BMTC Buses, quick monitor the Metro development. Where there’s a will, there’s a means. Fix Bengaluru as soon as and for all,” he added, tagging Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar and the Chief Minister’s Office.

Is shutting down IT parks a sensible answer?

The publish shortly caught the eye of social media customers, sparking a dialogue concerning the metropolis’s infrastructure woes. While some customers supported the thought, others, nevertheless, didn’t agree.

“Work from dwelling until we repair the house. #FixBengaluru. Maybe could possibly be metropolis’s finest infrastructure plan,” wrote one person.

“This is how issues needs to be completed.. if govt is critical about individuals,” commented one other.

However, one person defined the “sensible challenges” behind Shivashankar’s answer. “There might be actual sensible challenges in doing it now. We will not be in international disaster and the mother or father firms (GCCs) need their workers to be in workplace not solely in India however worldwide. Companies should shell out cash in retaining their services maintained despite the fact that it’s unused. Companies worry moonlighting if everybody works from dwelling. The closure of IT parks would have an effect on the native companies like lodges, eateries and PGs. People will cease shopping for automobile/2 wheelers and car trade will endure once more. Rental market and realty market will endure attributable to no takers,” the person wrote.

“I do know its painful, but it surely’s an excessive amount of to ask to close down the IT parks,” remarked one other.

“Will set a nasty precedent/publicity internationally. Roads could be fastened/relaid within the evening like in cities like Chennai. The Corporation will need to have proficient street constructing Engineers and most significantly Contractors. If National highways could be constructed quick why not in metropolis,” wrote one person.

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