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Survey results - cleanliness, pollution top local issues!?
Written By admin123 - 22 March, 2009
Bangalore Elections Analysis survey Issues
After about 3000 responses, here is how the results look like. The results are a function of how the poll was structured, and remember, this reflects the sentiments of urban, online populace of the city. Regardless, instead of analyzing this in various ways ourselves, why don't we leave it to readers and members to make sense of thes numbers. In case you are not very good with numbers, we have highlighted the top 3-4 items in each category :)
Q responses 1 Local Issues Air and Noise pollution 1617 Airport concerns - connectivity, re-opening HAL, BIAL quality etc 714 Cleaner city with better waste management 2040 Commuter Rail Service for Bangalore 1038 Conserving heritage of the city 838 Fast-tracking and more central support for Metro Rail 1302 Friendly facilities/infrastructure for the differently-abled people 851 Inter/intra state migration to Bangalore 461 Issues of Urban poor, Slum improvements 1136 More high speed roads/expressways in and around the city 1465 More investments and job creation in city 1008 More/better parks and lakes for the city 1247 Urban governance reforms - real autonomy for Bangalore 708 Water issues - quality and shortage, better groundwater management 16772 State level issues Agriculture - Irrigation, drought relief and other subsidies 1050 Better National Highways within Karnataka 1218 Better railways infrastructure within Karnataka 926 Communalism and intolerance to attacks on freedom 1403 Direct and indirect tax rationalization 708 Environment and climate change - preserving western ghats 1272 Investments for tier2/3 cities for growth of state and de-congestion of Bangalore 1242 More Higher education facilities in state 793 More investments in energy sector to solve state's power shortage 1962 More powers to Lokayukta of Karnataka 1516 More water for city and state from Cauvery 1100 Panchayati Raj and decentralization of power in urban as well as rural areas 467 Police Reforms - remove political interference, grievance process for citizens etc 1944 Promoting and protecting Kannada language and culture 590 Settle Belgaum issue with Maharashtra 513 Tourism infrastructure in the state (for job creation + recreation) 974 4 National issues Agriculture and Agri-processing sectors - policy and subsidy boosts 1096 Corruption - support for things like amendment of Prevention of corruption act 2393 Greener India 1734 Judicial reforms - more courts, faster justice etc 1754 Preventing criminals from running elections or becoming ministers 2334 Rural employment and poverty alleviation schemes (farmer suicide, urban migration etc) 1360 Security and Terrorism - issues like National ID card, POTA 2504 Women and child welfare (crime against women, child labor etc) 1594
COMMENTS
Correction needed in State level issues
s_yajaman - 23 March, 2009 - 04:03
Admin,
This is a statistically significant but potentially biased sample. Biased because it represents only internet users. However it could be very representative of Bangaloreans as internet usage here is supposedly high (anyone has data?).
Need to correct top 3 in the State level issues
# 1 - Investments in energy sector
# 2 - Police reforms
# 3 - Lok Ayukta
# 4 - Communalism.
Srivathsa
Naveen - 22 March, 2009 - 11:25
Hi All,
This is a huge poll with nearly 3000 responses & can indeed be representative of the urban, 'online' dweller.
That city cleanliness, air /noise pollution & better water & power issues in the state throws no surprises considering that the city is, in fact very dirty & water is becoming a real problem.
On the central level, corruption & security are the top concerns - in the backdrop of the mumbai attacks & the satyam scandal. Even in the absence of these, corruption issues would still have topped as it has always done on many other polls across the nation.
idontspam - 22 March, 2009 - 11:46
I agree, Clean & efficient governance seems to the the summary at state and national level. Be honest, dont divide and polarize us, dont swindle money, dont have criminals represent us, protect us from terrorists, criminals by keeping the police neutral and responsible.
Water, power, amenities, corruption - and traffic?
silkboard - 23 March, 2009 - 06:40
That is probably the pattern for us urban voters. If traffic was up there as a standalone item, would definitely have been the top issue. The survey had separate traffic/transportation items like Metro, Roads - and those got good attention.
So anyway, results depend a lot on the design of survey. Regardless, Water, Power and corruption are top issues, sort of universal, isn't it. It was heartening to see Water get so many clicks.
Urban and local governance reforms - see how low in the list these are. These are possibly the root of all problems. But perhaps most of us dismiss as either too geeky to understand, or as something that is too unrealistic to expect from our elected politicians.
Also, now, the question is - how many of these issues can an MP really influence and bring change on?
jennypinto - 25 March, 2009 - 03:39
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