Tag: Bengaluru
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Road Safety: Traffic Violations and Fines in Bengaluru
Bengaluru has the highest number of private vehicles in India, having crossed the 1 Crore mark in 2023. The high number of vehicles, combined with the relentless congestion in the city, has meant that there is also a high number of violations that are observed on the street like wrong-side driving, reckless driving, using mobile… Continue Reading
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Bengaluru Air Quality Datajam – March 2025
While cities in the North like Delhi, Agra, Varanasi make the news regularly over dangerous air quality, those in the South like Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad get a relatively easy pass as their air quality looks better in comparison. However, with more vehicles plying the roads than Delhi, with regular power cuts needing operation of… Continue Reading
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State of Under Construction Road Works in Bengaluru – 2025
A week back, OpenCity conducted a survey to crowd-source all the under construction road projects in Bengaluru. The goal was to first see how many such projects are lying around in the city and then situate them against the current frenzy for tunnel roads and elevated corridors across the city. A body with a poor… Continue Reading
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Mapping the Under Construction Flyovers and Underpasses in Bengaluru
The Government of Karnataka recently proposed building 150 km of flyovers, underpasses and elevated corridors across Bengaluru. Plans to build flyovers and underpasses to decongest the city have been ongoing for more than a decade without yielding long term or significant results. Apart from having limited success in addressing traffic congestion, many of these underpasses… Continue Reading
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Meet The Trees of Bengaluru: BBMP Tree Census Data Analysis
Bengaluru loves its trees! India hasn’t had its human population census in 14 years now, but here’s our city, doing a tree census. The priorities are clear. I was born and (mostly) live here, and needless to say, these trees are a huge part of my life. Obviously, I wanted to get my hands on… Continue Reading
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State of Groundwater Usage in Indian Cities in 2024
The “National Compilation of Dynamic Ground Water Resources of India” is an annual report published by the Central Ground Water Board under the Ministry of Jal Shakti, Government of India. The latest report, for 2024 is now out and can be accessed from OpenCity.in here. Stages of Ground Water Extraction The groundwater extraction is classified… Continue Reading
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Know your City Officials in Bengaluru
How to know which police station your home falls under, and where the police station is? Which BWSSB division supplies water to you and whom to contact if you are facing issues? These are among the many civic issues addressed by Bengawalk’s latest website: cityofficials.bengawalk.com. Some of the data like jurisdictions and contact info of… Continue Reading
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Projects in 2024 That Used OpenCity.in Data
OpenCity.in has been a public data commons for more than seven years now, and currently has 825 datasets with more than 6000 datasets. We also conduct regular datajams where people from diverse backgrounds come together to analyse the data related to specific issues. The coming together of data as well as experts lends to creation… 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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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… Continue Reading
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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… Continue Reading