Whitefield is a hub in the east of Bangalore in India. It is renowned for Sathya Sai Baba's ashram called Brindavan and a number of international Technology firms. Until the late 1980s, Whitefield was a small village which was a retirement colony for Anglo-Indians. It has since become a major hub for the Indian technology industry. The Export Promotion Industrial Park (EPIP) at Whitefield of one of the country's first information technology parks - International Tech Park, Bangalore (ITPB) which houses offices of many IT and ITES companies. The EPIP zone also has offices of other IT and R&D giants like Symbian (Symbian India Ltd.), GE (John F. Welch Technology Center), Wipro- GE Medical Systems, iGate Global Solutions, Sapient_(company), Manhattan Associates, SAP AG, Perot Systems, Dell, IBM, Intel and Oracle,TATA Elxsi,Geometric Software. An Intel Xeon processor code named Whitefield was being developed (but was scrapped later) in Intel's ITPB campus (Intel has since moved its campus from ITPB).
Whitefield also has major medical facilities such as the Satya Sai Baba Hospital which specializes in cardiovascular and neurological surgeries. There are major apartment complexes and residential layouts such as Palm Meadows,Laughing Waters,Shriram Spurthi, Ozone, Citilights Rustique, Lotus Krest, Gopalan, Sobha Rose, Ittina Anu, Redstone Akshaya Garden,Samarpan,10 Downing, Renaissance Jagrithi etc. which have sprung up in Whitefield. Villages around Whitefield:
- Pattandur agrahara
- Nellurhalli
- Varthur
- Immadihalli
- Hagadur
- Kadugodi (place where Sai Baba's ashram is situated)
- Ramagondanahalli
- Nagondanahalli
- Siddapura
- Channasandra
- Samethanahalli
- Bodhanahosahally
- Seetharampalya
- Belathur
Places you can visit include:
- Ayurgram - Ayurveda Clinic
- Soukya
- ITPB
- Brindavan
- Varthur Lake
- Sathya Sai super speciality hospital
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