Comments on: Has Mysuru gone Bengaluru way?-1: Bangalore’s Glorious Days

By: Gusto

Gusto — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 07:39:03 +0000

I agree with @Jalandhara that this article was badly conceived and badly written. That is because, it is the product of that barmy and weird bunch-the ‘Grahachara bunch’ I would call them the MGP, many there were retirees , non Mysoreans, who themselves contributed to the new residential extensions of Mysuru, among other non Mysoreans who flooded the city in 1970s that destroying the city..
I agree that the Dewans and Wadiyars like Nalwdi, who mainly stayed in Bengaluru created the Garden City. Nalwadi and JC Wadiyars, contrary to the myth, spent large part of the year in Bengaluru palace. Please note that Wadiyars like JC Wadiyar and his son, had a plethora health problems , through bad living, thus needing good doctors, who were all in Bengaluru!#
The Centre forced corrupt Kengal and Nijalingappa to find locations for HMT, BEL and ITI, closer to the perimeter of Bengaluru, as the Congress Government in the Centre then, wanted the bulk of the jobs in these factories for Tamilians, Malayalees and Andhras. Among the combined population of more than 30,000 workers in these 3 factories, Kannadigas formed barely 5%.
I had seen engineering diploma holders from the above 3 states, recruited in plenty and became bosses for engineering degree holders, who were often Kannadigas! Nijalingappa’s personal wealth like Kengal in the case of Vidhana Soudha swelled to crores of Rupees in this process.
The 3 factories in turn attracted dozens of medium sized factories which were located nearer to them Hence, it is incorrect to say they did not pollute the city, as their buses, hundreds of them, and the scooters and motor bikes ridden by the factory workers, numbering thousands, were seen rushing to the factories through city roads creating massive traffic even in late 1960s. Many accidents occurred; cyclists and pedestrians were mainly killed Roads riddled with potholes, even in late 1960s.
These 3 factories ,the new arrival NGEF at Byappnanhalli in 1960s, MICO etc.. were reduced to nothing at the end of that century! The IT sweatshops exploting code coolies calling themselves software engineers emerged! They expanded the city to dozens of miles.
By early 1970s, Bengaluru was a horrendous place-expensive and polluted to live. These non-Kannadigas preferred Malleswaram, and that once beautiful extension, was expanded as Malayalees and Tamilians built houses. Kannada was not spoken there at all, by then!
After the government gave way fertile land to companies like the InfoSys in Mysuru, decades later, Mysore nwent the same way as Brengaluru by 1990s, as new housing extensions, and new industries moved to Mysuru to escape the congested Bengaluru. The train track to Mysuru became Broad gauge from Metre gauge, the highway created, and Mysuru became a doomed place like Bengaluru.
Now, wait for the influx of Malayalees thousands in number , as the new rail and road links to Mysuru get completed, making this city as much a living hell as Bengaluru Within a decade, Mysuru border will touch Mandya, and halfway to the Nilgiris!.

By: Gusto

Gusto — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 07:04:26 +0000

By: swamy

swamy — Sun, 19 Dec 2021 06:05:45 +0000

In reply to swamy.

Correction…
Bangalore has gone through many deaths, yet comes back in the new form only to die again…

By: swamy

swamy — Sun, 19 Dec 2021 06:04:30 +0000

Bangalore has died many deaths, yet comes back in new form only to die again…

By: Jalandhara

Jalandhara — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 15:32:09 +0000

This is an example of a poorly written article. Facts are not properly stated or analysed, and in parts of the article, it sounds utterly nonsensical.
All the Dewans of Wadiyars from Sir K Seshadri Iyer, had permanent residences in Bengaluru, and indeed Nalwadi Wadiyar’s English tutors resided in Bengaluru, where Nalwadi spent a large part of a year , from his childhood to his later years. That was the reason, even in the pre-capital years, Bengaluru was developed so orderly in terms of its parks, extensions and iconic buildings to form a Garden City. The engineer-Dewan Sir MV who panned parts of the extensions like Jayanagar, ardently wanted to preserve the Garden element of the City.
Before focusing on the industrial development that Bengaluru reflected particularly in 1950s and 1960s, which was responsible for the later destruction of this once Garden City, I should add, the then CMs Kengal and Nijalingappa, pioneered Mysore ( Karnataka)-style political corruption that has since bedevilled the state. Their contemporary in the neighbourhood Tamil Nadu, Kamaraj in contrast ran a very clean government. Kengal, engineered corruption on a massive scale associated with large building works, such as Vidhana Soudha, in whose construction , he reportedly got large kick backs, through his contractor friends who got the contracts for building Vidhana Soudha. Nijalingappa , on the other hand added crores of Rupees crores as his bank account involved in approving the locations and development of the state-owned factories like the HMT, BEL and ITI , and their residential complexes. The HAL which was operating since WWII, was expanding rapidly too.
The locations of these three major factories could have been tens of miles of away from the Bengaluru city proper, as there was no need to locate them just a few miles from the then City borders. Nijalingappa promised jobs for Bangaloreans as the reason for locating these industries near the City perimeters, which was sheer nonsense as these were Central Government-funded industries, which meant that any qualified Indian, from any part of India had equal right with a Bengalorean to apply to secure the job. In those factories. Indeed they did in massive numbers. Unlike Kamaraj who used to demand and get quotas of jobs for Tamilians, , Nijalingappa, a mere nodding gnome to Congress leaders at the Centre, simply lied about Bengaloreans getting jobs in these factories, and only a very few of them were successful. The locations for these factories forced by the Centre were to help Indians from the neighbouring states of: Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh to get jobs there and settle in the City.
About the author’s claim: ’However, industrialisation of Bangalore did not damage the landscape of the city as either they were non-polluting in nature or they were located away from the residential layouts’
If you had visited Benagluru when the above 3 factories were in full swing, operating 3 shifts-early morning, mid morning and mid-afternoon slots, you would have seen hundreds of the buses from these 3 factories-out numbering the BTS buses at any time, It was no wonder the roads developed pot holes very often, and cyclists like me, who worked as an engineer in a private company then had arduous journey to my company every day, negotiating the plethora of potholes contributed to a large extent by these factory buses. The air pollution was horrendous even then, and adding to it was the massive petrol-driven two wheeler traffic contributed by he thousands of technicians and engineers who worked in the above factories. All most all of them were non-Kannadigas from the aforementioned states, who precipitated massive residential extensions in and around City.
Bengalru became the failed City from that time-5 decades to date..