Tag: Bengaluru
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How Rural is Bangalore Rural Constituency?
Bangalore Rural Lok Sabha constituency was formed in 2008 and went to polls for the first time in 2009. Most parts of the constituency were part of the erstwhile Kanakapura Lok Sabha constituency which comprised of assembly segments – Kanakapura, Ramanagaram, Channapatna, Magadi, Sathanur, Uttarahalli, Malavalli and Anekal, drawing from three districts – Ramanagaram, Bengaluru… Continue Reading
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Solving The Traffic Problem in Bengaluru
Bangalore… one of the fastest growing cities, also known as India’s Silicon Valley, and a house of more than two million IT workers. Bengaluru, as it has been officially called since November 2014, is the hub of the US$ 45 billion information technology sector that contributes nearly 38% to India’s GDP. In fact, Bengaluru has… Continue Reading
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Bengaluru’s Ring Roads and How They Align
Bengaluru has had the Outer Ring Road(ORR) for decades. While it was initially a road around the city, now it is estimated that more people live outside the ORR than inside. Along with the movement of people, traffic has also grown leaps and bounds and sections of the ORR are in the news regularly for… Continue Reading
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Find your Parliamentary Constituency
Use the below map to find your parliamentary constituency in Bengaluru Urban, Chennai, Mumbai and Delhi. Use the button the left of the screen to open the left panel. On this panel, you can choose the city and navigate to it. Or you can zoom in and out at all India level. The individual maps… 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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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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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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Analysing Bengaluru Traffic Police’s Push to Automation
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… Continue Reading
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Analysing BMRCL’s Report on Introducing Bike Taxis in Bengaluru
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.… Continue Reading
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Analysing Two-wheeler Sales Data in Bengaluru and Karnataka
One of the common complaints in Bengaluru every time the issue of traffic is discussed is how the number of private vehicles is increasing rapidly while the public transport has not kept pace. As much as this is true, a look at the vehicle registration data, and the sales of vehicles in general, can tell… Continue Reading
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Bengaluru Constituencies Datajam – April 2023
Bengaluru Urban district currently has twenty eight assembly constituencies (ACs) in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. Can public data be used to analyse, rate and rank how these 28 constituencies are doing in terms of different parameters like health, public transport, education, environment, access to water, economy or civic engagement? Can such an exercise yield outcomes… Continue Reading