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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Bengaluru Traffic Police(BTP) have been on a drive towards automation over the past decade. More and more challans are being added on their website, and people are expected to find them and pay their dues. While this might give BTP a bit of breathing space to concentrate on more stringent violations, that does not seem […]
Think of BBMP and the first thing that pops up in your mind is roads and potholes. After an evening of rains you might think of stormwater drains, and when the garbage piles up of solid waste management (SWM). However, these are only some (of the main) parts of BBMP’s duties. How the money is […]
In 2018, Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) was tasked by the Government of Karnataka to evaluate bike taxis as a possible public/shared transport. Basically, the report set out to ask the question – should bike taxis be legalised in Bengaluru? The report was submitted in 2019 and this is what it had to say. […]
The city of Delhi, a bustling metropolis and the capital of India, exhibits a contrasting landscape, with pockets of affluence set against areas of urban deprivation. One of the most pressing challenges faced by Delhi is the stark disparity in the availability of essential social infrastructure between its slum settlements and residential zones, as demarcated […]