Bangalore's IT, BPO crowd less than 10 percent

Bangalore: Employees in IT and BPO industries constitute just 10 percent of the total population of Bangalore. Data cited by The Times of India from various trade bodies and population statics show that these two industries employ just six lack people in Bangalore, in which 3.5 lakh employees are from IT and another 2.5 lakh from BPO/call center industry.

Assuming that each employee has a family of four -which is not the case as almost 50 percent of the industry is made up of singles in their early 20s- then their population in the city would be 24 lakh, which is 34 percent of the total.

It was also found that the five jobs that every single IT job creates in the city generally goes to a villager who has migrated to the city in search of better prospectus from within Karnataka.

The findings were made on the ground of the state JD(S) President H D Kumaraswamy's remark on huge traffic jam occurred in the city during a political rally of his party. The rally had affected the movement of lakhs of people in North Bangalore and many people had criticized this act. Responding to the complaints, Kumaraswamy had said, "Sophisticated people and those working in IT/BT are making unnecessary noise."

According to a report in the Times of India, it has become a fashionable for politicians to blame the city's 60,000 crore IT industry for all the ills plaguing Bangalore.