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I Change My City and My City My Budget (Janaagraha)

📍 India · 2012 · Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy

Scale
local
subnational
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systemic

Description

Janaagraha runs I Change My City, a civic web and mobile platform launched in 2012 that connects citizens with municipal agencies to report and resolve infrastructure complaints, and its flagship participatory budgeting campaign My City My Budget. In Bengaluru, with the BBMP, the campaign collected 16,261 proposals from the 243 wards in 31 days (2021-22 cycle), several of them incorporated into the municipal budget.

Linked evidence

Transforming urban life in India: How Janaagraha puts people at the heart of governancePeople Powered · 2023EvidenceMy City My Budget: Janaagraha to submit data to BBMP MayorCitizen Matters · 2022Evidence