THE SILICON VALLEY OF INDIA

BANGALORE is nearly 500 years old and has grown from a small time settlement when Kempe Gowda, the architect of Bengaluru, built a mud fort in 1537 and his son marked the city boundaries by erecting four watch towers

TODAY BANGALORE has grown well beyond those four towers into a sprawling metropolis of more than one crore population WITH A GDP OF $ 83 BILLION, Bangalore is listed 4th among the top 15 cities contributing to India's GDP

THE SILICON VALLEY of India accounts for more than 35% of India's software exports

BANGALORE CONTRIBUTES 30% of Karnataka's GDP

59% of private sector investment in the state is in Bangalore, according to ASSOCHAM

27 ASSEMBLY CONSTITUENCIES are under the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike

46.88% was the voting percentage of Bangalore citizens in 2008 Assembly elections. Rest of Karnataka witnessed 61%

VOTING TURNOUT in 2010 civic election was 45%

TOTAL ELECTORATE of Bangalore 70,37,885 out of total electorate of state 4,36,36,966

AS MANY AS 5.34 LAKH were first-time voters

AVERAGE LITERACY in Bangalore city is 89.59%

CITY DEVELOPMENT got a total outlay of Rs 6,203 crores in the 2012 state budget.