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Electronics City is a vast industrial complex in India, spanning more than 1.3 square kilometers in land area. Located in Konappana Agrahara and Doddathogur villages, Electronics City is just a few minutes drive from Bangalore. The complex is comprised of more than one hundred different companies, many of which are undisputed giants in the IT industry. Some of the more noteworthy companies that have offices in Electronics City are Hewlett Packard, Infosys, CGI, and Siemens.

Electronics City was the dream project of R.K. Baliga, who served as the first Chairman of Karnataka Electronics as well as the Managing Director of its Keonics division. Baliga planned Electronics City with the idea of making Bangalore India’s own Silicon Valley after the famous industrial area in the United States. Unfortunately, Baliga would not live to see his dream come to fruition, since he died in 1988.

With the death of Baliga, it was the liberalization of India’s economy as championed by the likes of P.V. Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh that would give Electronics City the push that it needed to develop into a viable industrial park. It was then that Electronics City grew to the industrial giant that it is today.

In 1997, ELCIA or the Electronics City Industries Association took over much of the maintenance work of Electronics City, after being given the responsibility by Keonics.It was during this time that representatives from the different departments were fielded in order to address various governance and management concerns.

There are currently three phases to Electronics City, namely, Phase I, Phase II and Phase III. Phase I and Phase II lie on opposite sides of Hosur Road. With the development of Phase II of the complex, Electronics City experienced a considerable increase in the number of companies breaking ground in the area. Unfortunately, this also caused a corresponding worsening in the traffic conditions leading to Bangalore. In order to ease the traffic, construction work on an elevated road was started in late 2004. The project of the Indian government, the road was an indication that big plans were still in the making for Electronics city.

Many people feel that the construction of this road can only result in good things, especially since more and more companies have expressed interest in opening up offices in the complex. With the establishment of offices and facilities by such heavyweights as Sasken, Convergys, Audi, BMW, Honda, General Motors and many others, Electronics City is definitely in a position to benefit from newer and bigger development projects.