Impact of IT Industry on Environment & Economic Development of Pune City

The IT industry was welcomed with open arms into the city as per the IT policy of the State government of Maharashtra. Many environmentalists have often stated that Pune has grown out of control because of the IT industry. That the various tax concessions and allowances have not been contributing enough, and the massive development that has taken place has affected the city's environment. - explore the realism in this perception. The main objective of the Paper is to map the range of economic and environment effects of the IT industry. In terms of environment the effects of IT industry have been explored two-fold - the industry level and the employee level. The reason to include the latter was to examine the entire gamut of environment effects due to the industry in the context of high migration and high consumption by employees. Various kinds of analysis have been used to process the data that was available, and draw conclusions. In terms of environment effects at the industry level, e waste and transport congestion come out very strongly compared to electricity consumption. At the employee level, an overview of what the additional pressures on land (housing) and basic services, electricity and transport is created. Viewed within the lens of the effect of an industry, one can summaries that these are high pressures for the city. Economic effects have been expressed through the Taxes and revenues that the city receives from the IT industry; and the employment created. These have been classified as direct and indirect effects. From the data gathered and most importantly from the interviews, the economic effects for the city are considered to be high. Unfortunately, the city does not have a way to monitor these effects through a cost and benefit analysis.