Overview

• CEO Rajesh Yabaji said staff commutes stretched to over 1.5 hours each way and described roads as potholed and dusty, prompting the decision after nine years at the Bellandur site.
• BlackBuck clarified it is vacating the Bellandur office only and has not chosen a new Bengaluru location, with reports of possible sites remaining unconfirmed.
• Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar announced Rs 1,100 crore for road works, set deadlines for pothole repairs, warned of accountability for poor civic work, and rejected what he called attempts to “blackmail” the government.
• Industry figures including Mohandas Pai and Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw called the episode a governance failure and urged emergency fixes, while an IT industry group sought a clear roadmap on roads, metro links and utilities.
• Andhra Pradesh IT Minister Nara Lokesh publicly invited BlackBuck to move to Visakhapatnam, as context on the ORR corridor noted more than 500 companies, nearly a million daily commuters and about a 45% year-on-year traffic surge.