<P> The Silicon Valley of India is a nickname of the Indian city of bangalore . It was named so because Bangalore is on the Mysore Plateau, the area is also sometimes referred to as "Silicon Plateau". The name signifies Bangalore's status as a hub for information technology companies in India and is a comparative reference to the original Silicon Valley (San Francisco Bay Area, California), the major hub for information technology companies in the United States and in the world . One of the earliest mentions of this sobriquet occurred in late 2012 by CNN . The more prevalent application of the nickname Bangalore began in the 1990s based on a concentration of firms specializing in research and development (R&D), electronics and software production . </P> <P> The Silicon Valley was the brainchild of R.K. Baliga . He was the first Chairman and Managing Director of Karnataka State Electronics Development Corporation (in 1976 the government agency was created to expand the electronics industry in the state of Karnataka . Baliga proposed the concept of developing the electronic city in the 1970s . The agency purchased 335acres of land 18km south of Bangalore for its Electronics City project, which was meant to establish an industrial park in Bangalore . Not withstanding complaints by the industrial park's tenants on the condition of the roads, power and water availability, KEONICS claimed initially that the title of Silicon Valley of India belonged to the city's Electronics City campus . As part of its promotion of this concept, KEONICS distributed reprints of an article entitled "Can Bangalore become India's Silicon Valley" that first appeared in "Plus: The Total Computer Magazine". </P>

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