Bengaluru Road Contracts
How can you help?
You've seen what was spent on your ward's roads. Here's how to turn that into pressure the system has to answer — file a complaint, find your corporation, escalate with an RTI, and spread the record.
Each step below is one slide — use the arrows or arrow keys.
Start here: complain about a road
You've seen what was spent on your ward's roads. If the road outside doesn't match the record, the fastest route is the government's own grievance system — it works, it's free, and every complaint creates a paper trail.
Register a civic complaint (potholes, bad asphalting, drains, waterlogging):
- Call 1533 — GBA's civic helpline.
- Sahaaya 2.0 — the official grievance platform (web portal and Android app). Attach photos or video; you get a complaint number you can track.
- Helpline alternatives: 9480685700 · 080-22660000.
A complaint with a photo, an exact location, and a date is far harder to ignore than a phone call alone.
Your ward card gives you a third ingredient nobody usually has: what was spent there, by whom, and when.
Which corporation is yours now?
The wards on this site are the old BBMP 225 — the wards these contracts were filed under.
Since 2 September 2025, Bengaluru is run by five city corporations (North, South, East, West, Central) under the Greater Bengaluru Authority. Your complaint lands with your current corporation, so we show it on every ward card: the corporation your old ward now falls under.
A few old wards straddle a new corporation boundary — those cards say so honestly instead of guessing. You can confirm your corporation on GBA's own "Know Your New City Corporation" tool.
Where's the ward phonebook?
We wanted to give you the name and number of the engineer responsible for your ward's roads. We haven't — deliberately.
No current, official, per-ward officer directory exists for the 225 wards this site uses: the only published by-ward contact list is for the pre-2023 198-ward structure, and BBMP itself has been dissolved, so any BBMP-era officer list is stale by construction.
Publishing a wrong or outdated personal number causes real harm and helps nobody. If GBA publishes a verified ward-officer directory, it will appear here.
Escalate: file an RTI
About 35% of the contracts in this record name no winning contractor. The record itself is the problem — and the Right to Information Act is the tool built for exactly that.
An RTI application costs ₹10 and any citizen can file one. Ask your corporation:
- Who was awarded tender number X? (take the tender number from the ward card)
- What was the winning bid, and what has been paid against it so far?
- What is the completion status and the measurement book entry for this work?
If you file one and get an answer, we'd love to publish what the record wouldn't say: write to transparency.foundation@proton.me.
Spread it
- Share your ward's card with your residents' association, ward committee, or local WhatsApp group. Accountability is a numbers game.
- Journalists and researchers: the full dataset is free to reuse, public domain, no permission needed — see Data & Sources.
Found an error here?
Tell us: transparency.foundation@proton.me with the tender ID or ward number and what looks wrong. We correct openly.