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Explainer: National Time Use Survey Data 2024
The National Time Use Survey (TUS) is a periodic survey conducted across the country by the National Statistics and Surveys Office (NSSO), Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation (MoSPI), Government of India. The most recent… Continue reading
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State of Under Construction Road Works in Bengaluru – 2025
A week back, OpenCity conducted a survey to crowd-source all the under construction road projects in Bengaluru. The goal was to first see how many such projects are lying around in the city and then… Continue reading
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State of Groundwater Usage in Indian Cities in 2024
The “National Compilation of Dynamic Ground Water Resources of India” is an annual report published by the Central Ground Water Board under the Ministry of Jal Shakti, Government of India. The latest report, for 2024… Continue reading
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Explainer: Bengaluru Elevated Corridors – 2026
The Greater Bengaluru Corporation through its infrastructure arm – BSMILE – floated tenders to construct nine flyovers or elevated corridors across the city. These nine flyovers range from a length of a few hundred meters… Continue reading
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How Data Centres Are Drawing on Bengaluru’s Groundwater
Can Bengaluru Survive Its Data Centre Boom? Many of India’s metro cities face some type of water stress every year. Bengaluru might be the biggest victim to water stress. Due to the city’s landlocked location,… Continue reading
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Bengaluru Stormwater Drains Datajam – May 2026
The Bengaluru Stormwater drains datajam was conducted on the 23rd May 2026 in collaboration with MOD Foundation, WELL Labs, Biome Trust and Sponge Collaborative. It was part of the Building a Resilient Bengaluru Initiative supported… Continue reading
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Visualising Bengaluru’s Budget & Where GBA’s Money Flows
Ashutosh Shukla analyses visually the money flow, from income to expenditure for the five corporations in the Greater Bengaluru Authority area, Continue reading
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Masterplan Viewer for Indian Cities
Varun Phadke has developed a web app called masterplan viewer where you can overlay the masterplans for 27 different cities or regions. Continue reading
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PLFS 2025 – The Missing Half of the Workforce in Indian Cities
Analysis of Periodic Labour Force Survey 2025 concentrating on labour force participation in the eight major cities of India. Continue reading
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Analysis: GCC Budget 2026-27
Analysis of Greater Chennai Corporation budget for 2026-27. Continue reading
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Chennai Constituencies Tables
Data tabels for parameters like health and education for Chennai district constituencies. Continue reading
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Analysis: GBA Budgets 2026-27
Analysis of the Budgets of the five corporations under GBA, looking at income, expenditure and historic trends. Continue reading
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Chennai Constituencies: Facilities in Government Schools
At the Chennai constituencies datajam, Abdullah, Harini, Kathir, Prasanna and Santhosh worked on public data to analyse the state of government schools in the 16 constituencies in Chennai district. Continue reading
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Chennai Constituencies Datajam – March 2026
The Chennai constituencies datajam was conducted on March 28th 2026 to analyse the delivery of and gaps in essential services like education and health in the constituencies in Chennai. Continue reading
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Analysing the BMC Budget for 2026-27
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation announced a budget with an allocation of a whopping Rs. 80,952.56 Cr. This marks an increase of 8.7% from the previous year’s allocation. While the increase this year is only 8.7%,… Continue reading
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