Category: Analysis
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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, financial analysts, students, and professors. The teams were guided through the process by facilitators from GeoPune, Chinmay Shaligram and Devdatta… 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 were delimited into Bangalore North, Bangalore South, Bangalore Central and Bangalore Rural (with most areas of the erstwhile Kanakapura constituency… 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 Mumbai, Chennai and Delhi where the city limits also define the district limits. In the case of Pune, Ahmedabad and… 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 rainfall was received, Chennai has had to face flooding related incidents every few years. Cyclone Vardah, categorised as Very Severe… 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 in the back burner and life has been pretty much business as usual. Occasionally concerns are raised with new variants… 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. Why? Well, that has multiple reasons, it can be psychological, social and so much more. “Neither the life of an… 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 one year! This is also the highest since 2017 when 5,064 crashes were recorded. The number of road crashes has… 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 the national, states/UTs and major metros (defined as having population over 2 million) level. The data is aggregated from state… 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. The government of Tamil Nadu has not published any such reports, so we don’t have data on Tamil Nadu. One… Continue Reading
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Analysing the MoRTH Road Accidents Report for 2022
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH), Government of India, recently released the road accidents report for 2022. The report lists detailed statistics on road accidents in India – number of accidents, deaths from accidents, type of vehicle involved, type of road, etc. The data is also split by states and Union Territories, and… Continue Reading
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Analysing Ground Water Usage in Major Indian Cities
The National Compilation of Dynamic Ground Water Resources is a biennial report published by the Central Ground Water Board, Ministry of Jal Shakti, Government of India. It details the state of ground water from the state and union territory, to the district and blocks of districts (Taluks) level for all districts. The report calculates the… Continue Reading
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Analysing the BBMP street dog census data 2023
BBMP recently released the data from the street dog survey conducted over July and August 2023. The survey estimates that there are 2.79 Lakh (2,79,335 to be precise) dogs on the streets in BBMP’s area. This is down from the estimated 3.10 Lakh (3,09,975 to be precise) dogs in 2019, a decline of 9.88% over… Continue Reading