Impact of IT-Park on Urbanisation- A Case Study : Pune

Vahid Karimi
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Urbanisation is the expansion of a city or metropolitan area, where the proportion of total population or area in urban localities or areas, increases over a period of time. Urbanization takes place when people migrate from rural area to the cities in search of jobs and better living conditions

The process of Urbanization is important because, this process can centralize better amenities at a specific place and a large population can get maximum benefit out of it. There has been various factors which acted as catalyst from time to time, such as setting up brick kilns, sugar ills, jute mills ,oil refineries, automobile industries, telecom industries and so on .The latest item on the list is the Information Technology.

The present case study is focused on the impact of IT parks in the process of urbanization at the city of pune. Pune has established itself as the “Academic Corridor of India”, in the present scenario it is also emerging as an “InfoTech Hub”. It has statistics to back its claim for the number one destination for IT investments.

Close proximity to the economic capital of the country i.e. Mumbai & rapid improving infrastructure along with the enchanting climate are the factors which has made Pune the most sought-after commercial destination in the country. Nasscom has ranked pune out of the 10 information technology destinations in India.

There are approximately 75 software companies at different IT parks in Pune. Some of the big names of IT Parks are PUNE IT PARK, PUNE SOFTWARE PARK ,MAGARPATTA CYBERCITY ,KHARADI KNOWLEDGE PARK and SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY PARK at talewadi . In the present paper the two issues are discussed here are: a) Are the IT parks actually effecting the process of urbanization in the city of Pune? b) If it really effects urbanization then how to quantify it? Both the issues have been discussed in a geospatial environment.



* Student Symbiosis Institute of Geoinformatics, Pune
** Lecturer, Symbiosis Institute of Geoinformatics, Pune