What problems are increasing in Ludhiana?

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

Summary

Corruption and dangerous roads are becoming harder to ignore, even as crime occupies a smaller slice of the city's news. Corruption rose 2.6 points and accidents rose 1.7 points; the deadly building collapse keeps the cost of weak urban safety concrete.

WATCH Watch whether corruption cases bring visible enforcement and road safety moves beyond episodic action.

Full category ledger

Category	News Reported	Share Change (points)	Action Rate	Fatal Rate
Elections Politics	601	+2.9	1.2%	0.3%
Corruption Fraud	1,618	+2.6	23.0%	0.7%
Accidents Road Safety	1,470	+1.7	2.6%	36.6%
Infrastructure Utilities	636	+0.6	1.1%	0.6%
Labor Employment	301	+0.5	4.7%	0.7%
Environment Pollution	644	+0.4	1.2%	5.9%
Immigration Border	57	+0.4	8.8%	0.0%
Education	133	+0.1	0.8%	0.0%
Missing Persons	121	+0.1	12.4%	6.6%
Human Rights Social	67	+0.0	4.5%	4.5%
Public Safety	451	-0.1	0.7%	9.8%
Protest Civil Unrest	937	-0.2	1.5%	2.5%
Legal Judicial	377	-0.3	29.7%	0.8%
Disasters Emergencies	191	-0.3	2.1%	67.5%
Terrorism Conflict	138	-0.3	34.1%	26.8%
Policing Law Enforcement	1,824	-0.5	24.3%	1.7%
Governance Policy	3,256	-0.9	1.9%	0.9%
Public Health	1,088	-2.6	0.6%	44.7%
Crime Violence	7,417	-4.1	34.2%	12.3%

Rising sub-problems

Problem	News Reported	Δpp
Homicide	2699	+1.44
Money Laundering	275	+0.88
Bribery	287	+0.59
Municipal Election	95	+0.57
Cyber Fraud	33	+0.55
Factory Collapse	40	+0.51
Industrial Accident	31	+0.30
Drug Trafficking	26	+0.30
Power Outage	37	+0.28
Wage Dispute	37	+0.27

Receding sub-problems

Problem	News Reported	Δpp
Disease Outbreak	336	-1.53
Robbery	345	-0.84
Theft	395	-0.72
Gas Leak	66	-0.67
Burglary	120	-0.60
Drug Trafficking	348	-0.59

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
2022-08	Traffic Accident	380	3
2017-12	Building Collapse	13–16	15
2020-04	Disease Outbreak	16	4
2023-07	Gas Leak	11	29

21,327 pieces of news reported · deaths shown only for corroborated events, never summed

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