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Civic record · Kanpur
What problems are increasing in Kanpur?
Every civic news report geolocated to Kanpur, classified into an open problem vocabulary, and trended as a share of the city's total coverage.
AI verdict · codex · ground-checked
Road and rail danger is Kanpur's clearest worsening civic problem. Accidents and road safety took a bigger slice of the city's news, up 8.6 points; 36.9% involved deaths, while authorities acted in 2.5%. Vehicle crashes, traffic accidents and train derailments are the fastest-growing specifics.
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Full category ledger
category
news reported
share change (points)
action rate
fatal rate
accidents road safety
1,816
+8.6
2.5%
36.9%
governance policy
1,051
+2.9
2.1%
2.1%
public safety
403
+1.7
1.0%
11.4%
infrastructure utilities
314
+1.2
0.6%
0.3%
labor employment
39
+0.3
0.0%
0.0%
legal judicial
252
+0.2
29.4%
0.0%
disasters emergencies
136
+0.1
2.9%
27.2%
terrorism conflict
100
+0.0
30.0%
29.0%
human rights social
48
-0.1
2.1%
8.3%
missing persons
76
-0.3
6.6%
13.2%
immigration border
34
-0.4
23.5%
0.0%
environment pollution
316
-0.9
3.2%
0.3%
elections politics
260
-1.0
0.0%
0.4%
corruption fraud
879
-1.2
18.4%
1.3%
public health
626
-1.3
0.5%
34.0%
protest civil unrest
462
-1.6
4.5%
8.0%
policing law enforcement
1,212
-3.6
16.4%
22.8%
crime violence
4,977
-4.5
26.9%
20.7%
Rising sub-problems
problem
news reported
Δpp
vehicle crash
64
+1.65
traffic accident
317
+1.53
train derailment
303
+1.53
vehicle collision
75
+1.26
suicide
99
+1.00
train accident
103
+0.77
power outage
36
+0.59
assault
496
+0.58
explosion
23
+0.54
railway accident
32
+0.45
Receding sub-problems
problem
news reported
Δpp
homicide
1862
-3.30
tax evasion
130
-1.38
money laundering
202
-1.36
police misconduct
170
-1.05
rioting
73
-1.00
fire incident
63
-0.68
Coverage volume by year
Corroborated fatal events (≥3 news reports agreeing; conflicting tolls merged into a range, never summed)
month
event type
deaths reported
corroborating news reports
2017-01
train derailment
150
30
2017-02
railway accident
150
7
2016-11
train derailment
146–149
22
13,001 pieces of news reported · deaths shown only for corroborated events, never summed