Karnataka government has announced a thousand crore investment in setting up a Q-city near Bangalore. This announcement has been made by the Science and Technology Minister, N S Boseraju during the Quantum India Summit 2025. The stated goal for this Q-city planning is to make quantum technology in Bangalore, a 25 billion economy in the next ten years. Yet another venture for the capitalists and the government for duping the people.
The objectives of this Q-city plan has been stated as a way to create ten thousand high-skilled jobs, rapid technological innovations and developments, and to make Karnataka into the capital of quantum technology in South Asia. The Indian Institute of Science has already set up a quantum lab as part of this in their physics department. The government is also planning to integrate quantum physics in the curriculum of PUC students as a way of forcing the students into becoming future cheap labour.
Under the capitalist economy, the goal of any technological development has been planned as a way of increased profit for the capitalists. The facade of innovation is built at the loss of livelihoods for the people. The ecological sensitivity of these places where technologically heavy infrastructures are being built, have been completely neglected, as the lakes, the parks, and the fabric of urban life become the sites of so-called innovation. Rather than pumping money into making education accessible and universal, the government is introducing such specialised courses that only a few may afford.
This model of ‘development’ is a way through which the imperialist countries are tightening their grasp in exploiting the masses of the developing countries. This plays out when global investments are pouring through in Bangalore in the name of developing infrastructure or driving technological innovations for the good of the minority who hold the power in the global economy.
