Ahead of the civic polls, Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy surveyed Bengaluru citizens to ascertain what bothered them about living in this metropolis. Their answers have revealed a plethora of problems that have long afflicted the city but continue to affect different sections of the urban population, with socio-economic location determining the severity of the issues.
Of the 503 surveys conducted, a majority of 56% respondents belonged to lower middle-class housing, 23% respondents came from middle and upper class housing and 21% lived in informal settlements (shacks or slums).
Here are the woes of the city’s residents cutting across socio-economic divide.
