u look at any paper which boasts about achievement in karnataka and what do you see, only bangalore. only bangalore is projected as the most happening city. whereas a few days back there was this huge one page ad in a leading newspaper of tamil nadu brought by elcot or some tn dept. where they have projected coimbatore, trichy, madurai etc as two tier cities where if possible there may be software companies, but will definitly have manufacturing companies. we need manufacturing industries to have a steady growth. how many do we have in karnataka? bhel, toyota, bhadravati iron & steel(started by visweshwaraya "industralise or perish" remember) mysore paper mill, south india paper etc. for the last example, there are about one dozen paper mills only in the pollachi belt itself. dudes we need manufacturing, else we will be dumped sooner or later
