Ward information: 163 – Katriguppe

What did Katriguppe ward get in last five years? How much money was spent? What are the complaints of the residents?

163 – Katriguppe

This area falls adjacent to Outer Ring Road and 80 feet road runs through this ward. But this ward has mainly residential areas. The result is total chaos. Here is more information on Katriguppe ward.

MLA (2013): Ravi Subramanya L A (BJP), Basavanagudi
MP (2014): Ananth Kumar (BJP), Bangalore South

BBMP 2010

Corporator: D. Venkatesha Murthy (BJP)
#18/1, 18th main road, 14th cross, Padmanabhanagar, Bangalore-70. Ph: 9448053899
Reservation: BC-A

Votes
Winner’s percentage: 22.9
Winner’s margin: 3895
Total votes polled: 17052
Total voters: 38210

BBMP 2015

Total voters: 39175
Male: 20318
Female: 18853
Others: 4

Reserved: General

Contesting Candidates

BJP: Sangathi Venkatesh
INC: N Chuchendra Kumar
JDS: Shivaramegowda
Loksatta: Rohit Simha

Candidate debate 

Demographics

  • Population (2011): 45572
  • Households: 11997
  • Area: 1.1 sq km

Civic Amenities/Infrastructure

  • Road length: 608 km
  • Lakes: 0, Total area: 0 sq km
  • Parks: 7, Total area: 1.1 sq km
  • Playgrounds: 2, Total area: 0.6 sq km

Active citizen groups/RWAs

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.

How was the money spent? Tenders, job codes, bills:

  • 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 to view the raw data.

What’s bothering the residents? Complaints represented in a wordcloud:

 

 

Data Courtesy

BBMP, Janaagraha, BBMP Restructuring Committee website

Disclaimer: This data is an extract; it is not complete, and not verified independently. It is not from the entire tenure of BBMP council 2010-15.

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