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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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BMTC bus shelters survey
OpenCity.in conducted a survey to understand the state of bus shelters in Bengaluru Urban. The goal was to get an idea of the presence of bus shelters for BMTC stops, and where present, the condition… Continue reading
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Scraping Daily Weather Data From Ogimet
Ogimet.com is a weather data portal that aggregates data from official sites from around the world. In the case of Indian cities, the data is pulled from IMD stations. The site has data on Indian… Continue reading
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Private Water Tankers Survey – February 2024
OpenCity.in in collaboration with Bangalore Apartments’ Federation (BAF), conducted a survey private water tankers in Bengaluru. The goal of the survey was to understand the demand for water in different parts of the city, how… Continue reading
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Analysing the results from the 2024 General Elections in Karnataka
In the recently concluded General Elections to the Lok Sabha, BJP and its alliance partner JD(S) won 19 of the 28 seats on offer in Karnataka. The Indian National Congress (INC) won the remaining nine.… Continue reading
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How Rural is Bangalore Rural Constituency?
Bangalore Rural Lok Sabha constituency was formed in 2008 and went to polls for the first time in 2009. Most parts of the constituency were part of the erstwhile Kanakapura Lok Sabha constituency which comprised… Continue reading
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Solving The Traffic Problem in Bengaluru
Bangalore… one of the fastest growing cities, also known as India’s Silicon Valley, and a house of more than two million IT workers. Bengaluru, as it has been officially called since November 2014, is the… Continue reading
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Bengaluru’s Ring Roads and How They Align
Bengaluru has had the Outer Ring Road(ORR) for decades. While it was initially a road around the city, now it is estimated that more people live outside the ORR than inside. Along with the movement… 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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