- While Karnatakas daily demand for power is 60 million units, the supply varies from 40 to 45 million units. The result: daily power cuts.
- Office rents have increased by more than 60 per cent and residential rents by 120 to 125 per cent in some areas.
- Largest number of vehicles, 8.5 lakh, on the roads after New Delhi, yet these no main highway for trucks.
- Highest pollution levels after Delhi.
- Only 300 traffic cops for 30,000 intersections.
- 6,000 passengers arriving in and departing from an airport designed for 700 people.
- High cost of education: sending a child to kindergarten costs about Rs 8,000 per year.
- Growing population, estimated at 50 lakh.