Anucheth: Bengaluru vehicle count doubled between 2013 and 2023
M. N. Anucheth · Nikhil Kamath ft. Police Comm'r & Traffic Police Comm'r of Bengaluru | WTF is Policing? | Special Ep · Nikhil Kamath · May 12, 2025 · at 59:55
M. N. Anucheth, Bengaluru Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic), explains the rapid vehicular growth outpacing urban infrastructure in Bengaluru.
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“So we have 1.5 crore population with 1.23 crore vehicle population, right? So with the kind of explosive growth, so the compounded annual growth rate of vehicles is eight percent, right? We doubled in between 2013 and 22, 23. It was 56 to become 1.12 crores, right?”
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