Bangaluru - City of future!

Innovative streak has been in Bengaluru's bloodstream for hundreds of years and the start-up boom is the latest manifestation of this streak. Bengaluru, which was recently voted the most liveable city in the country .When you look at the weather, the people in the city, the facilities and others -- like having one of the best airports in India -- all of it makes Bengaluru very livable .

Bengaluru has been most successful in latching on to the global IT boom, transforming the metro from a Pensioners' Paradise and a Garden City to a high-tech IT conurbation within a few decades.

One of the big things in recent years has been the development of the metro. We are seeing the metro network It connects Electronic City, where many of the tech companies, including Infosys, is getting connected to the metro network. As the metro spreads out, mass transit becomes easier and it would take some pressure off from the roads. Traffic here has been a matter of concern. So, you can see the upswing and see a lot of road work going on.

 It always had a history of innovation and contribution by forward-looking visionaries. We have two great parks in Bengaluru – Lal Bagh and Cubbon Park. The Lal Bagh was developed in 1760 by Hyder Ali, who felt the need to create the need Mughal garden in the south. Cubbon Park was set up by the British in 1870. Both went to create green lungs in the middle of the city. It was forwarding looking to think of these things in 1760 and 1870.

It has always been the hub of innovation. If you look at the early part of the 20th century, Bengaluru was the first city to get electric light on a street. In 1904, there was an electric pole set up in KR Market because Maharaja (Krishnaraja Wadiyar) had set up a power plant in Shivasamudram to provide electricity to the Kolar Gold Field to mine gold. That line ran through Bengaluru and they decided to take bypass from that to provide electricity to Bengaluru. So, Bengaluru became the first city in India, in 1905, to get electricity.

In 1909, Jamsetji Tata and the Maharaja got together to set up the Indian Institute of Science, a forward-looking science university for it and it still the best science university in the country.The Maharaja brought in German botanist Hermann Krumbiegel in 1908, who not only developed Lal Bagh but also came up with the idea of serial blooming, which meant that different trees would bloom in the city at different times.If you look at it, all these people were way ahead of their time, thinking about parks, electricity and universities. So, the innovative streak has been in the city’s bloodstream for hundreds of years and what you are seeing is the latest manifestation of that -- the reinventions in terms of start-ups. Just like Silicon Valley, once you have a culture where you attract good talent, people like to live there, there are good schools and college and you create that critical mass of people, then magic happens.

Bengaluru was the place where Walchand Hirachand set up the first aircraft manufacturing plant in 1940, in the pre-independence era, which became Hindustan Aeronautical Limited (HAL). Post-independence, many top research labs were set up in India. Several public electronic manufacturing companies -- like ITI (Indian Telecom Industries), BEL (Bharat Electronics Limited)-- were set up in Bengaluru. The strong public sector presence led to private sector manufacturing.

Remote software development was again invented in Bengaluru which led to the growth of the IT industry, which today is close to 190 billion dollars in size. That again created huge technology, which then attracted more capital units and that in turn brought in the VCs (venture capitalists) who brought young talent from these companies.

It's also a very cosmopolitan city. When the British built cantonment, many people came in from the different states. Many more migrated when the public sector boom happened in Bengaluru. During this time, Bengaluru has reinvented itself for the future. As India embarks on a mission to realize its dream of forging a $5 trillion economy, the Bengaluru will serve as an indispensable engine of growth, providing the much-needed traction through its entrepreneurial spirit, high-quality human capital and of course, technological preparedness. For, the spirit of Bengaluru is indomitable. Collectively, it can embrace change, improvise and prosper in the face of adversities.

Bengaluru is a intellectual capital of this country .In technology, Artificial Intelligence, general sciences, urban studies, Shock waves ,E-car Fuel cells ,I think Bengaluru is the leader.