Tag: BBMP
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BBMP’s Budget 2025-26 Analysis
BBMP’s budget for 2025-26 was presented on the 29th March 2025. BBMP’s budgets have tended to be around the Rs. 10,000 Crore mark with election years showing some loosening of purse strings. By those standards, the budget of 2024-25 was considered big with an outlay of Rs. 12,000 Crore for the first time since 2019-20.… Continue Reading
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Explainer: Bengaluru Tree Census Data
The BBMP is conducting a tree census in Bengaluru, the first of its kind. As of November 2024, 2,86,000 trees have been enumerated across seven zones. Here are some salient points from the data so far: The addition of data to this dataset from the BBMP is ongoing, and we will continue to update the… Continue Reading
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Governance in Integrated Water Resource Management – What actions are required
Introduction This article identifies the gaps in governance of our water system management, and recommends corrective actions. The document is divided in 3 sections: The article contains four appendixes: Part-1: Our water system As shown in the diagram below, our water system comprises the following components: A simplified diagram of how these components work together… Continue Reading
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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… Continue Reading
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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,… 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 the actual work? Where can you track this flow of money, including details of the contractors who executed the job?Basically,… Continue Reading
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BBMP RTI documents
OpenCity.in recently accessed documents from BBMP on standard procedures. These documents were obtained through RTI by Ravindranath Guru, an RTI activist and founding member of KRIA katte. They were digitized with the help of Omshivaprakash of ServantsOfKnowledge. The main advantage of the digitization is that the documents are available as text pdfs which can be… 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
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Explainer: Changes in the 225 BBMP wards between the proposed and final delimitations
Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) proposed a new delimitation of wards on the 18th of August 2023. This delimitation divided the area under BBMP into 225 wards instead of the 243 wards which was the regime that was brought into force in 2022 under the then BJP government. This delimitation was open to the public… Continue Reading
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BBMP Non-Physical Infrastructure Allocation and Spending Over the Years
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… Continue Reading
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BBMP – Work Orders, Budgets and Processes Datajam – July 2023
Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is the governing body for a large area under Bengaluru Urban district. It administers an area of 712 sq. km with a population of close to 10 million. After the last delimitation in November 2022, there are now 243 wards in BBMP, up from the earlier 198 wards. The last… Continue Reading
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What BBMP’s Work Orders Reveal About How Money was Spent
Problem Statement How has BBMP’s spending on different categories varied across assembly constituencies in the past 5 years? Data Sources BBMP’s work orders data for each of the 198 wards from OpenCity.in was the main source of data. Each work order includes details about start and end date of the project, a description of the… Continue Reading