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Frequently Asked Questions
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Open City: Asking the right questions
As part of the Tech4Dev cohort, in March 2020, we kickstarted the re-design of Open City, a city level data repository hosted and developed by Oorvani Foundation and Data Meet. The purpose of the redesign was to make the platform more accessible and user friendly. It was exciting to start this because it let us…
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Datajam on Urban Heat in Mumbai – June 2025
With every passing year, Mumbai is experiencing worsening summers, with heat waves starting as early as February. Increasing concretisation is adding to the urban heat island effect, making the mercury soar in Mumbai. Weather patterns are changing too, as people experienced heavy rains causing water-logging as early as mid-May this year. More than 40% of…
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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 survey was conducted in 2024. The main goal of the survey is to measure how people spend their time. The…
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Design Jam on Chennai Water – April 2025
Chennai is a city that is often in the news for water related issues. While periodic cyclones cause flooding and water-logging in winter, these events are followed in summer by water shortages and droughts. Many reports put Chennai along with Bengaluru among major cities likely to run out of water in the near future, a…
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Datajam on Lakes in Bengaluru
Bengaluru is known as a city of lakes. Where once there were more than a thousand lakes, we now have under three hundred lakes, which is still unique when compared to other cities in India. These lakes played a large role in flood mitigation, as water sources and as ground water recharge sinks. Increasingly those…
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Analysing the Multi-Indicator Survey for Indian Cities
The 78th round Multi-Indicator Survey (MIS) was conducted in 2020 starting in January 2020. The survey was conducted by the National Sample Surveys Office (NSSO) under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), Government of India. The survey covers all the districts in the country and the comprehensive data can be found here in…
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Datajam on Urban Heat in Chennai – September 2024
In 2024 Chennai has recorded close to 120 days of the temperature crossing 35°C. That is four of the nine months of the year so far! If the high relative humidity is also factored in, the number of days that would have “felt like” more than 35°C would be much higher. What does this mean…
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Explainer: Understanding the HCES 2022 for Cities Dataset
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), Government of India, released the data from the Household Consumption and Expenditure Survey, 2022. While the website contains the summarised data, the raw data from the survey is available on the National Data Archive (NADA). From OpenCity.in we have downloaded this raw data, processed the text files…
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Addressing Urban Heat in Bengaluru Datajam – August 2024
On the 29th April 2024, Bengaluru recorded extremely 38.5°C which was the second hottest day ever recorded in the city. IMD records showed that between February and June 35°C was exceeded on 45 days, 27 of which were in April. The remaining three days of April recorded more than 34°C, so there really wasn’t a…
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Bengaluru Design Jam on BBMP Bye-laws – July 2024
A city is defined by how people live, and the kind of buildings in the city – houses as well as other buildings like schools, hospitals etc – play a significant role in that. Building bye-laws defined by the urban local bodies exist mainly to regulate how different structures – residences, apartments, commercial buildings, schools,…
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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 of these bus shelters, and if buses actually stop at these shelters. The survey was conducted through a whatsapp bot,…