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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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Analysing the Sixth Economic Census Data for Chennai
The Sixth Economic census conducted in 2012-13 enumerated the businesses, type of businesses and number of people employed, male and female, in each of these businesses. The exercise was pan-India and data is available at… Continue reading
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Pune Transit Datajam – April 2024
On 27th April, Busकरा/BusKara, in collaboration with OpenCity.in, Parisar and GeoPune, organised a Data Jam at Symbiosis School of Economics, Pune. The theme of the data jam was “Transit in Pune”. The participants included architects,… Continue reading
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Analysis of voter rolls in Bengaluru Constituencies
The last delimitation of Lok Sabha constituencies in Bengaluru happened in 2008. Before that, areas of Bengaluru were part of three constituencies – Bangalore North, Bangalore South and Kanakapura. After the delimitation the three constituencies… Continue reading
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Resources – General Elections 2024
Here’s a list of resources, both in OpenCity.in and outside that you can use to find information regarding the general elections 2024. Some of these resources are mainly for major cities – Bengaluru Urban, Chennai,… Continue reading
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Find your Parliamentary Constituency
Use the below map to find your parliamentary constituency in Bengaluru Urban, Chennai, Mumbai and Delhi. Use the button the left of the screen to open the left panel. On this panel, you can choose… Continue reading
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Villages Around Our Cities
When we think of our city districts, like Bengaluru, Chennai, Mumbai, Pune or Ahmedabad, we think of sprawling metropolises with buildings crowding the landscape. However, this is true only for some of our cities like… Continue reading
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Analysis of GCC’s Budget Allocations on Flooding
Severe Cyclonic Storm Michaung made landfall near Chennai during the first week of December 2023. It caused massive rainfall in the city which left many areas waterlogged. Since December 2015, when a record 1000+mm of… Continue reading
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Bengaluru Water Datajam – March 2024
After a year of failed rainfall due to El Nino, Bengaluru is feeling the heat in more ways than one this summer. Stories of water shortage are common, tanker rates have been hiked across the… Continue reading
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What was the “true” toll of Covid-19 in Bengaluru?
It has been 9 months since the WHO declared Covid-19 as “no longer a public health emergency”. In India, for close to two years, since the Omicron wave hit in early 2022, Covid-19 has been… Continue reading
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Explainer: Pune Tree Census Data
The open data portal of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has made public hundreds of datasets on different aspects of governance in Pune. There is data on census, public toilets, property tax, parks amongst others. One… Continue reading
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Explainer: Understanding the BBMP Work Order Finance Process
What are the processes that drive the works that the BBMP carries out – from filling a pothole, clearing a storm-water drain to installing new streetlights? How does the money flow from the budget to… Continue reading
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Waste Management in Mestri Palya: A Case Study
Waste Management is something that we often tend to overlook so what if you take out some time and think about it? Let us think, we generate waste, and what next? That isn’t our responsibility.… Continue reading
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