Increasing volume of electronic waste is a major problem for Bangalore and whole of India
Parth Sharma
Jun. 24, 2007

The outsourcing was interesting. The dollars came in. The Americans exported their corporate inefficiencies into India taking advantage of Indian cheap IT labor. India exported its wage deflation and now is into wage inflation. But something is going terribly wrong and that can disturb the outsourcing fiasco.

Bangalore is getting filled with IT hardware waste. The Silicon Valley of India, home to around 1,700 IT companies, is now grappling with serious hazards posed by the increasing volume of electronic waste (e-waste). The IT hub generates anywhere about 6,000 to 8,000 tones of e-waste annually and the issue needs to be accorded top priority, feels J Parthasarathy, Director, Software Technology Park of India (STPI), Bangalore.

It was a very smart move by the Americans. Transfer low end IT jobs to these Indians and with it transfer the hardware electronic waste that will pollute India forever.

Government of India should as for hefty tax and/or removal assurance of IT junk from Indian soil from these Western corporation dumping IT junk in India.

The e-waste agency (EWA), a Bangalore-based NGO, supported by Indo-German Swiss e-Waste initiative, has already put forward a proposal before the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to enact a legislation on the issue.

“Pending legislation on the subject, the ministry has been requested to issue guidelines as an interim measure,” M.R. Deshpande, National Project Coordinator EWA, said.

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