What problems are increasing in Amritsar?

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

Summary

The civic story is becoming more border-focused. Immigration and border coverage takes a bigger slice of the city's news, up 13.2 points, led by deportation and smuggling; terrorism and conflict also rose 3.6 points.

WATCH Watch whether border enforcement and smuggling keep displacing everyday civic issues in local attention.

Full category ledger

Category	News Reported	Share Change (points)	Action Rate	Fatal Rate
Immigration Border	614	+13.2	2.8%	2.3%
Terrorism Conflict	490	+3.6	16.9%	24.3%
Public Safety	239	+0.8	1.3%	8.4%
Policing Law Enforcement	1,955	+0.5	24.8%	3.2%
Disasters Emergencies	61	+0.3	0.0%	18.0%
Public Health	316	+0.2	2.2%	32.0%
Infrastructure Utilities	128	+0.2	2.3%	0.0%
Environment Pollution	86	+0.2	3.5%	1.2%
Elections Politics	377	-0.2	0.5%	0.3%
Missing Persons	33	-0.2	3.0%	9.1%
Human Rights Social	97	-0.3	2.1%	10.3%
Legal Judicial	191	-0.5	28.3%	4.2%
Accidents Road Safety	1,152	-1.7	0.4%	65.2%
Governance Policy	1,370	-2.1	1.6%	2.0%
Corruption Fraud	308	-2.2	24.7%	0.0%
Protest Civil Unrest	650	-4.9	1.5%	4.8%
Crime Violence	3,374	-6.9	27.7%	19.4%

Rising sub-problems

Problem	News Reported	Δpp
Illegal Immigrant Deportation	215	+6.68
Arms Smuggling	130	+2.74
Deportation	81	+2.43
Drug Smuggling	139	+1.99
Illegal Migration	41	+1.24
Homicide Attempted	64	+1.23
Grenade Attack	66	+1.09
Homicide Attempt	55	+0.99
Vandalism	32	+0.79
Narcotics Smuggling	30	+0.79

Receding sub-problems

Problem	News Reported	Δpp
Homicide	1186	-5.03
Political Protest	195	-2.28
Border Security	104	-1.61
Theft	77	-0.90
Border Security Incident	57	-0.85
Armed Robbery	67	-0.84

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
2019-04	Massacre	379	14
2019-09	Massacre	300	4
2018-10	Train Accident	61–62	8
2019-10	Train Accident	61	5

11,441 pieces of news reported · deaths shown only for corroborated events, never summed

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