The PEENYA Industrial Area

There are many industrial areas or estates in Bangalore. They form a very important component of economic activity in the city and deal with various kinds of complex technologies. There are competent entrepreneurs who are at the helm of these enterprises and are a hub of dynamism and activity. I have visited many of these industrial areas for professional reasons and have returned amused at the organized way in which they perform and produce various kinds of products and services and in a competent way.

The many industrial estates of Bangalore are  Electronic city; Peenya industrial area; Koramangala Industrial area; rajajinagar indusrial area; Mahadevapura Industrial area; Mysore road Industrial area; the Anekal Industrial area  and tucked between these areas are smaller industrial communities and townships.I have visited the Baikampady industrial area in Mangalore and the Sadaramangala industrial area in Tumkur and Sriperumbadur industrial estate in chennai..

The striking aspect of these industrial communities is the complex technologies around which they work. From electroplating to CNC machines to ceramics to information technology they have them all. I don't know if there is any other city in the world to my knowlege that houses such a large congregation of industrial outfits..I guess not ..tucked under the salubrious climate of this city these outfits must be performing at the height of their abilities and potential .  In the absence of such sectors the larger industrial houses of a country will feel handicapped and act as feeders to larger industrial establishments. What spurred the growth of these units and to a large extent it appears to me is the many public sector units around the city who demanded various forms of industrial services.

The center of the city to my mind is M G Road....from this point one can get access to all the arterial roads that form the life line of the city. The major roads that exit from the city are the Old Madras Road ; the Hosur road; the Bellary and Tumkur roads and the Mysore road. If we were to traverse in a concentric way the Mysore road leads to the Tumkur road then to the Bellary road then to the Old Madras road and then to the hosur road and back to the Mysore road. Roads like Bannerghatta road and Kanakapura roads are some kind of  sub arteries to the above set of main lines. Why have I outlined these roads..there is a reason..for most of these industrial estates what I talked about must be at a distance of some 20 kms from M G Road and spread into territory between these arterial lifelines of the city.

The major or the largest if one may call of the industrial estates of the city is the Peenya Industrial area and is adjacent to the Tumkur road and possibly extends upto the fringes of the Mysore road..a large area and chunk of territory inhabited by a wide variety of industrial sectors..mammoth in its disposition and complesx and intriguing in its appearance. My earlist assosiation with this estate was for a conference held by the NPC  national productivity council as a sponsored canditate from BPL and almost at the same time had some fixtures fabricated at Amba metal works for the BPL factory. Little did I know that at a later point in time would have a very steady and long drawn association with this township largely interacting or associating on a more intense scale the many entrepreneurs at this place and coming to know largely first hand their trials and challenges and impediments. 

Peenya Indutrial Area has four phases and two stages. This is my analysis and i have found these nominations confusing. The demarcating lines between the peenya industrial area and the yeshwantpur industrial area is confusing...however the Peenya indutrial area starts  somewhere from the Wipro Fluid Power factory on the tumkur road. This is the first stage and first phase it appears. Behind the Wipro Fluid Power factory are a cluster of manufacturing enterprises like TVS Electronics...Karmobiles...Welcast Steels..Triveni Engineering...Gemini dyeing and spinning mills..ITC to name a few. When you come down the main road there is the Dasarahalli circle and to the left one enters the main estate and possibly the second phase. The second phase possibly ends somewhere at NTTF and gives way to the second stage which houses the third and fourth phases. Note that my demarcation may not be perfectly right but it would suffice to appraise the first time evaluator of this place the enormity of the place and its constituents. The industrial outfits that compose the estate have made a formal association called the PIA peenya industrial association and has its office adjacent to the main road that enters the main estate. I had conducted a conference here on ISO 9000 in the auditorium of this office.

Let me see if I can recollect the names of few people I knew at this place...Prithviraj of a cardboard casing company; Jayaram of  Fluostart; Ajmani of Fluolite; Prathapan of TAP; Uthamman of Glastronix; Iyer of Electronics and Controls; Sudarshan of Devaki Engineering; Howard Martindale of Krone Communications and a German lad Tellar in one of the organizations. ABB and Kirloskar too have their endeavors here.

I believe small scale sector has two problems . ONE  the needs for managerial training for the perpetrator and skill upliftment for the worker..TWO the need to control economics of the business and more than anything so the outstanding  collections. To solve the first problem some kind of mandatory training must be provided through some institutions dedicated for this purpose. To solve the second problem some kind of special courts could be set up to provide relief for an entrepreneur from some one who willfully defaults on outstanding payments.