The Committee's last stop on Monday was a visit to the Infosys campus in Bangalore. They have built a large IT campus on the edge of Bangalore that is as modern as anywhere in the USA. We heard from an executive from the company before we received a tour of the campus. The executive made it very clear how the City of Bangalore has completed failed in its service delivery role and that is why they have had to build and equip their campus entirely by themselves with all traditional municipal services provided for their use by themselves.
Needless to say we were all a little taken aback by the comments, although I think we all understood where they were coming from. The company is one of the premier IT outsourcing companies in the world and can apparently do what they need to do here. Some among us wondered what it would have been like for Bangalore had Infosys attempted to build their complex in the midst of the problems in central Bangalore and could their large investment had a greater impact in fixing the issues the Infosys executive was now railing against.
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