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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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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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Road Crashes in Bengaluru – 2023
Bengaluru recorded 4,974 road crashes (traffic accidents), just shy of 5000, in 2023, according to data from the Bengaluru Traffic Police (BTP). This number is up from 3,823 in 2022, an increase of 30% in… Continue reading
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Chennai Rains and Waterlogging Datajam – Jan 2024
In December 2023, Chennai was hit by the Severe Cyclonic Storm Michaung. Close to 500mm of rainfall was received over a period of a day in Chennai as per the IMD stations of Nungambakkam and… Continue reading
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Crime in Metros in India in 2022
Crime in India 2022, is a three volume report from the National Crime Records Bureau(NCRB) under the Ministry of Home, Government of India. The report is a collection of statistics on crime in India at… Continue reading
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Bengaluru Walkability Datajam – December 2023
In 2022, Bengaluru recorded more than 3,800 road crashes which resulted in 772 deaths. 247 of those who were killed, or 32%, were pedestrians. In the eight Indian metros, more than 30% of the deaths… Continue reading
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Income gap as a pointer to inequality within states
Economic surveys, or socio-economic reviews as some states call it, are reports published by state governments on the state of the economy in their states. We have economic surveys of Karnataka, Maharashtra, Telangana and Delhi.… Continue reading
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