Bengaluru: With only a few weeks away for the state government to announce the BBMP polls, the Bengaluru Political Action Committee (B.PAC) has taken a survey to ascertain the pressing problems of the city. The survey is being conducted in all the 198 wards of the BBMP and will gather responses from 10,000 citizens.
According to B.PAC CEO Revathy Ashok, the survey consists of ward-specific questions related to the infrastructure, maintenance and hygienic conditions of a ward. “It's a perception survey that tries to find out what is important for a citizen, what he thinks of its hygiene, infrastructure and the maintenance of the public works in his ward. Respondents will also rank certain issues according to the importance it has to an individual. Most of the questions revolve around ascertaining the pressing problems of a ward and the city as a whole,” she said.
The respondents are given multiple choices and have to choose one to indicate the problem they face the most. Meanwhile the B.PAC is also conducting an online survey to collect opinions of Bengaluru netizens. While the questions for the online survey and general survey are formatted differently, they revolve around the core aspects: people’s problems and what they want.
The online survey comprises questions like ‘Between traffic and garbage dumping, which is the most pressing concern in Bengaluru?’ with options being ‘Garbage Disposal’ and ‘Traffic Management’. There are also questions like 'Between the two, which is a bigger problem for you'- ‘Bad traffic management’ or ‘Bad quality of roads’.
So far, the B.PAC has found that most of the Bengalureans find garbage a bigger problem than traffic management. “Over 50 per cent of the netizens who have taken the survey have highlighted that garbage is a bigger problem than traffic management. Since the survey is still going on and is in its final stages, we will know the actual results only after it closes on June 22,” shared Revathy.
She added that elections are nearing and B.PAC wants to highlight the problems of every ward so that a voter can make an informed choice.
Voter-turnout
“Usually, voter-turnout is very low for corporation elections and we want to tell the people that these are the problems in their wards. These issues cannot be solved unless people vote for the right candidate. We want more people to vote,” she said.
