Category: Stories
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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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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 city. Discussions and news reports on water resilience are back after many years of plentiful rainfall when flooding was 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 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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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 Meenambakkam. The Northern parts of the city were worse affected, receiving more than 600mm. The city faced widespread flooding 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 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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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 are of pedestrians, the second largest cohort after two-wheelers. Unlike two-wheelers, cars or, say, tractors, pedestrians don’t form a unique… 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