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Leveraging civic data, divided into 3 categories spending, infrastructure andcitizen feedback, can present a clear picture of the priorities, performance,and pain-points of a city. Data driven insights highlight the current issuesfaced by citizens as well as disparity between government spending and qualityof work, and can aid in providing effective solutions. City infrastructure;footpaths, lighting, and parks, describe the living quality of citizens and canbe compared to the annual spending in these sectors to track effectiveness.Analyzing complaints ensures citizen feedback is taken into account during bothlong-term planning and in short-term solutions to pinpoint critical areas ofimprovement. Integrating an analysis loop and data driven dashboards can helpin improving performance of municipal corporations, while adding transparencybetween citizens and the city officials. In the paper, constituency rankingsacross the city infrastructure indicated a low importance towards greenery interms of Parks, where each constituency has less than 2% of their area as apark. As populations in these areas are already high and increasing, this islikely to worsen in the coming years. Comparing the results with complaints,surprisingly the rankings of footpaths in constituencies were contrary to thenumber of complaints in these constituencies, with high ranking constituenciesreceiving the highest number of complaints, which would require furtheranalysis. In terms of street lights, the areas with low quality lighting wereassociated with a large number of complaints from citizens, indicating thataction needs to be taken immediately. Overall, a text analysis of complaintsacross constituencies reflected the everyday struggles of the city with the topkeywords 'roads' and 'vehicles', followed by 'footpaths' and 'garbage', whichare both critical problems in Bangalore City today.

Effective City Planning: A Data Driven Analysis of Infrastructure and Citizen Feedback in Bangalore