STUDY AREA

Bangalore the IT hub of India is located in the southern part of the country of Karnataka state. With the spurt in IT industries in the region during late 1990’s, the city was termed “Silicon Valley”. This policy interventions created job opportunities to different category of people. The city has grown spatially during the last year by 10 times and the current spatial extent is about 741 km². Geographically Bangalore is located in the Deccan plateau, toward the south east of Karnataka state extending from 12^o49’5”N to 13^o8’32” N and 77^o27’29” E to 77^o47’2”E. To account for developments in the peri urban regions, the study area includes ten km buffer (from the administrative boundary) with a gross area of over 2250 km2 as shown in Fig. 1. Bangalore has spatially increased from 69 sq.km (1901) to 741 sq.km  (2006). The decadal (2001 to 2011) increase in population for urban areas of India is 31.8% and in Karnataka is 31.5%, but Bangalore has a decadal increase of 44% very large compared to that of the state and country.

Fig.1. Study Area- greater Bangalore with 10 km buffer