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 BANGALORE, India (AP) - Under pressure from business leaders, authorities in Bangalore, India's technology hub, on Thursday detailed new plans to spend billions of rupees (millions of dollars) to improve the city's potholed roads and sporadic electricity supply.
Word of planned upgrades to Bangalore's sagging infrastructure first came last week after some members of the city's $6 billion software outsourcing industry and its main trade body, the Bangalore Chamber of Industry and Commerce, threatened to boycott the government-sponsored annual technology convention in November if the improvements were not made.
City authorities at the time said they would repair 19 roads, and after a meeting Thursday with business leaders, they announced plans for more road repairs and upgrades to the power supply.
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