All you need to know about Ward 85 – Doddanekkundi

If you are a voter of Doddanekundi ward, here is all that you need to know about your ward: Who is contesting, what are the problems, what has BBMP done about it in the last five years.

85 – Doddanekkundi

 

Doddanekundi ward is the part of the Whitefield area, and covers important areas like Brookefield, AECS layout and Brindavan Layout. Outer Ring Road passes through this ward. Though the money spent by the BBMP is not less, the outcome is yet to meet the demands of the residents and people travelling to Whitefield everyday. The reservation status of the ward has been changed from ‘General’ to OBC-A (women). Here is more information on the ward.

MLA (2013): Arvind Limbavali (BJP), Mahadevapura
MP (2014): P C Mohan (BJP), Bangalore Central

BBMP 2010:

Corporator: N.R. Sridhar Reddy (BJP), Reservation:G
Doddanekundi, Bangalore-37. Ph:9845382347

Votes:
Winner’s percentage: 29.5
Winner’s margin:4649
Total votes: 13944
Total voters: 30842

BBMP 2015:

Total voters: 52695
Male: 29113
Female: 23560
Others: 22

Reserved: OBC-A (Women)

Contesting Candidates:

BJP: Shwetha Vijaykumar    
INC: Usha K    
JDS: Jyothi

Demographics

Population (2011): 63083
Voters: 52173
Households: 17755
Area: 12sq km

Civic Amenities/Infrastructure

Road length: 1529 km
Lakes: Munnekolala, Chinnappanahalli, Kundalahalli, Doddanekkundi, Sonnenahalli, Total area:69.5 sq km
Parks: 28, Total area:7.5 sq km
Playground: 3, Total area:1.6 sq km

Active Citizen groups/RWAs

  • Whitefield Rising
  • Bruhat Whitefield Residential Communities Association

If you represent any RWA from this area, please click here and fill your info. It will be added to this space after verification.

Candidates

These are the candidates contesting the BBMP elections- 2015, whose information is available with Citizen Matters. If you do not find a particular candidate on this page, do ask them to fill the Candidate Information Form as soon as possible.

Tenders, Work orders and other ward-related data

  • Click on the sections corresponding to complaints, tenders and bills, to get a feel of what are the problems, what is being addressed, how much money is being spent, and is it really happening on ground.
  • Scroll using your arrow keys to see the details within the sections.

Click here for raw data. 

Word cloud for the complaints

Data Courtesy

BBMP, Janaagraha, BBMP Restructuring Committee website

Comments:

  1. Kodandam Rajesh says:

    Please repair the Road in chinnanppnali railway track road.

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