What problems are increasing in Indore?

Every civic news report geolocated to Indore, classified into an open problem vocabulary, and trended as a share of the city's total coverage.

Summary

Indore's civic risk is shifting toward health and serious road danger. Public health became a bigger slice of the city's news (up 5.3 points), while accidents and road safety rose 2.2 points; homicide was the fastest-growing specific problem, up 5.61 points.

WATCH Watch water contamination, homicide and traffic accidents for signs that this shift is persisting.

Full category ledger

Category	News Reported	Share Change (points)	Action Rate	Fatal Rate
Public Health	1,387	+5.3	0.6%	45.0%
Accidents Road Safety	1,539	+2.2	1.8%	42.0%
Missing Persons	115	+0.9	0.0%	7.0%
Public Safety	695	+0.5	0.7%	9.4%
Human Rights Social	130	+0.4	11.5%	0.8%
Environment Pollution	227	+0.3	2.6%	1.8%
Terrorism Conflict	39	+0.3	23.1%	2.6%
Education	69	+0.1	1.4%	0.0%
Infrastructure Utilities	421	-0.1	1.2%	0.0%
Immigration Border	40	-0.1	5.0%	0.0%
Labor Employment	63	-0.2	15.9%	1.6%
Governance Policy	2,480	-0.7	2.3%	1.2%
Legal Judicial	541	-0.8	37.3%	2.2%
Crime Violence	6,105	-0.9	35.0%	8.6%
Corruption Fraud	1,269	-1.2	24.7%	0.5%
Protest Civil Unrest	565	-1.3	4.1%	1.8%
Elections Politics	364	-1.3	1.9%	0.3%
Policing Law Enforcement	923	-1.4	26.2%	1.3%
Disasters Emergencies	207	-2.0	1.0%	69.6%

Rising sub-problems

Problem	News Reported	Δpp
Homicide	2091	+5.61
Water Contamination	236	+3.95
Traffic Accident	331	+0.89
Bomb Threat	41	+0.47
Molestation	66	+0.46
Food Poisoning	30	+0.34
Fire Incident	103	+0.33
Fire Explosion	19	+0.32
Nomination Withdrawal	19	+0.32
Cyber Fraud	32	+0.31

Receding sub-problems

Problem	News Reported	Δpp
Assault	548	-1.15
Structural Collapse	76	-1.05
Rape	118	-0.68
Theft	341	-0.67
Bail Hearing	73	-0.65
Fraud	120	-0.51

Coverage volume by year

Corroborated fatal events (≥3 news reports agreeing; conflicting tolls merged into a range, never summed)

Coverage Month	Event Type	Deaths Reported	Corroborating News Reports
2016-11	Train Derailment	100–150	10
2020-04	Disease Outbreak	49–52	6
2023-03	Structural Collapse	36	25

17,179 pieces of news reported · deaths shown only for corroborated events, never summed

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