Bengaluru home to about 25 lakh IT professionals: DKS

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Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar speaks during the inauguration of Bengaluru Tech Summit 2025 connected  Tuesday.

Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar speaks during the inauguration of Bengaluru Tech Summit 2025 connected Tuesday. | Photo Credit: PTI

“Karnataka did not go an IT elephantine owing to chance. The authorities and the backstage assemblage person worked unneurotic to marque it happen. Karnataka was the archetypal State to present an IT argumentation successful the country. Karnataka was the archetypal State to present an IT Ministry,” Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar said astatine the tech summit.

“California has 13 lakh IT professionals portion Bengaluru has 25 lakh. This shows the spot of Bengaluru. There are 1.4 crore radical successful Bengaluru, of which 20% are IT professionals,” helium added.

Talking astir the much-maligned infrastructure issues of Bengaluru, the Minister said the authorities has acceptable speech ₹1.5 lakh crore for the improvement of Bengaluru, naming 41-km double-decker flyovers, duplicate passageway road, elevated corridor, buffer roads, and 117-km Bengaluru Business Corridor arsenic those nether works.

“Along with this, we are readying an IT metropolis successful Bidadi. We are besides moving a 2nd airdrome successful the southbound of Bengaluru. We volition besides commencement a caller section for NRIs,” helium said.

Published - November 18, 2025 09:37 p.m. IST

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