TOWN PLANNING ON

BANGALORE CITY

Submitted by : Sheetal Baid Submitted to : Ar. Manish

Bangalore ( Bengaluru )
is the capital city of the
Indian state of Karnataka.
Located in the south-
eastern part of Karnataka.
 Nickname: Silicon
valley of India
 Geographical location -
12° 58’ N and 77 ° 35’ E
 Altitude – 920 m above
MSL
INTRODUCTION : 
 Topography of Bangalore is
generally flat.
 There are no major rivers
flowing in the area.
 Bangalore has a string of
freshwater lakes and water
tanks, such as Bellandur,
Ulsoor, Hebbal, Madivala tanks
etc.
 The soils of Bangalore
district consist of red laterite
and red fine loamy to clayey
soils. 
 CLIMATE :

The climate of Bangalore is classified as the

tropical wet and seasonally dry.
 Temperature –
mean maximum of 33.4 ° C in April/May
mean minimum of 15 ° C in December/January.
 Relative humidity – Mean monthly
 44% (min) in March
 85% (max) in October.
 The mean annual rainfall is 889 mm.
 Wind - Easterly and westerly predominant
directions. May to September - WSW to W.
November to March - ENE to ESE.
Bangalore city is located in a seismically stable
region (Zone II ).
 ORIGIN & EVOLUTION
In 1537 CE, Kempe Gowda — a feudatory ruler under the
Vijayanagara Empire established a mud fort considered to be the
foundation of modern Bangalore.
 Within the fort, the town was divided into smaller divisions,
each called a "pete“.
 The town had two main streets:
 Chikkapete Street, which ran east-west,
 Doddapete Street, which ran north-south.
 Their intersection formed the Doddapeté Square—the heart of
Bangalore.
 Kempé Gowda's successor, Kempé Gowda II, built four towers
that marked Bangalore's boundary.
Following by the Marathas and Mughals, the city remained
under the Mysore kingdom.
 Bangalore continued to be a cantonment of the British Raj.
GARDEN CITY OF INDIA
 As a city, Bangalore’s history in the last six decades
has undergone many changes.
 In the post independence decades Bangalore was
known as a Garden City of retirees’ bungalows, and
for a significant public sector presence.
 As a large number of centrally owned public sector
units as well as state government owned enterprises
were set up from the early to mid nineteen fifties
onwards.
 The city also saw the growth of several premier
scientific research institutions, set up by the central
government.
 GARDEN CITY TO SILICON VALLEY
As the era of economic reforms began, from the late 1980s,
successive governments in Karnataka (across political parties)
pushed an economic reform agenda due to which, the city has
now become the icon of India’s information technology
revolution.
 It has become a major centre for multi national companies,
international banking, finance and hospitality, and an attractive
destination for an upwardly mobile, tech savvy middle and
upper class of citizens with multiple channels of connection to
the global economy and culture.
All of this has entirely transformed the city’s landscape.
 As real estate prices soared in the wake of the economic
boom, and the horizontal architecture of yesteryears gave way
to the inevitable multi storied
complexes of offices and residences, malls and multiplexes.
Bangalore is now known as the Silicon Valley of India because
of the large number of information technology companies located
in the city which contributed 77% of India's IT exports in 2011-
2012.
Bangalore's IT industry is divided into three main clusters —
 Software Technology Parks of India (STPI);
 International Tech Park, Bangalore (ITPB);
 Electronics City.
1st Belt - The core area
consisting of the historic Petta,
the Administrative Centre and
the Central Business District;
2nd Belt - Peri-central area
with older planned residential
areas surrounding the core
area;
3rd Belt - Extensions in 2003 of the City flanking both
sides of the Outer Ring Road, a portion of which lacks
services and infrastructure facilities and is termed as a
shadow area;
4th Belt - New layouts with some vacant lots and
agricultural lands; and
 5th Belt - Green belt and agricultural area in the City's
outskirts including small villages.
Bangalore has a radio- concentric system structured by
ring roads, five major radial roads and five secondary
radial roads that converge towards the centre of the city.
 The major and secondary radial roads that form a ten-
pointed star constitute the organizational system of the
city and are important as they support both industrial and
commercial development.
Bangalore gets its water from the Cauvery river about 95km from the city.
Bangalore Water Supply
• The supply was augmented in
1933 from Chamaraja Sagara
Reservoir built across River
Arkavathi .
• The Cauvery Water Supply
Scheme started in 1974.
• 1st stage – 1974 - 135 MLD
• 2nd stage- 1983 - 135 MLD
• 3rd stage- 1993 - 270MLD
• 4TH stage Phase I -2002 - 270
MLD
• 4th stage Phase II-2012 -
500MLD • TOTAL : 1310 MLD
• Bangalore Water Supply and
Sewage Board(BWSSB) formed in
1964 now adequate water supply
for the city.
 SEWAGE
• The number of households connected to the sewage network increased from
157,000 in 1991 to 344,000 in 2001, and the population grew from 18.9% to
30%.
• The significance of this rate, which just concerns the connections to the
formal well-to-do category of the population, indicates, the lack of sewage
network on one hand and on the other, the fact that often covered storm water
drains are used for sewage disposal.
• The result is that about 70% of the BMP population uses a drainage system
that translates to a geographical area of about 40% of the total LPA area.

DRAINAGE

• The growing geographic spread of Bangalore and accompanying

construction activity has interrupted the natural valley system of the region.
• Construction has also resulted in tilling up small Water bodies and low-
lying areas. The flooding of drains during each monsoon exposes its poor
state and their inadequate capacity, and impacts the City’s overall
infrastructure. 
 • With the growth of the City, the number of lakes has reduced to 64 from 400, and
small lakes and tank beds have vanished because of encroachment and construction
activities.
• This has resulted in storm-Water drains reducing to gutters of insufficient capacity,
leading to flooding during monsoon.
• Dumping of municipal solid Waste (MSW) in the drains compounds the problem and
leads to blockages.
• To control floods, it is important to remove silt and Widen these storm Water drains
to maintain the chain flow and avoid Water from stagnating at one point.
MASTER PLAN
The Bangalore
Development Authority
(BDA) will take the first
step towards putting in
place the much-delayed
Master Plan for the City by
calling for tenders to create
a fresh one within a week’s
time. 
The Master Plan (2016-
2031) was intended to serve
as a blueprint to develop the
City for 15 years upto
2031.