An index of the organisations, datasets, tools and archives that people working on public problems actually use — built to help you find the ones you didn't know existed.
- Agmarknet
Daily wholesale prices and arrivals for agricultural commodities, reported from regulated markets across India
Dashboard Agriculture India
Go straight to Agmarknet - ASER Centre
Runs the Annual Status of Education Report, a household survey measuring what rural Indian children can actually read and count
Organisation Education India
Go straight to ASER Centre - Bhuvan
ISRO's geoportal — satellite imagery, thematic map layers and administrative boundaries for India
Data source Land India
Go straight to Bhuvan - Census of India
The decennial census — population, household, migration and housing tables down to village and ward level
Data source Demography India
Go straight to Census of India - Community Conserved Areas Portal
Participatory portal documenting community conserved areas across South Asia, with locations, ecosystems, areas and legal status
Data source Land India
Go straight to Community Conserved Areas Portal - CPCB Air Quality
Live and historical air quality readings from India's continuous monitoring stations, with the National Air Quality Index
Dashboard Environment India
Go straight to CPCB Air Quality - Data for India
Curated charts and underlying data on how India lives, earns and grows, built for people who are not statisticians
Data source Demography India
Go straight to Data for India - data.gov.in
India's Open Government Data platform — datasets published by ministries, states and departments under a licence that permits commercial reuse
Data source Governance India
Go straight to data.gov.in - DataMeet
India's open data community — mailing list, city chapters, and the maintainers behind several widely used boundary datasets
Community Technology India
Go straight to DataMeet - Development Data Lab
Research group publishing SHRUG, an open geographic platform linking Indian census, economic and night-lights data
Data source Economy India
Go straight to Development Data Lab - Digital Sansad
Official record of the Indian Parliament — questions and answers, debates, bills, committee reports and member details
Data source Governance India
Go straight to Digital Sansad - Election Commission of India
Official election results, electoral rolls, candidate affidavits and statistical reports for national and state elections
Data source Elections India
Go straight to Election Commission of India - env.wiki
Directory of organisations working on environment and sustainability across India, sorted into some thirty-six categories
Directory Environment India
Go straight to env.wiki - eSankhyiki
MoSPI's own data portal — national accounts, CPI, industrial production, labour force and consumption surveys, with an API
Data source Economy India
Go straight to eSankhyiki - FAOSTAT
FAO's food and agriculture statistics — production, trade, land use, food balance sheets and emissions, by country since 1961
Data source Agriculture Global, India
Go straight to FAOSTAT - Forest Survey of India
The India State of Forest Report — biennial satellite assessment of forest and tree cover, state by state and district by district
Publication Land India
Go straight to Forest Survey of India - GeoLibre
Free, private-by-design GIS for visualising, editing, and analysing geospatial data across browsers, desktops, mobile, and Jupyter
Tool Technology Global
Go straight to GeoLibre - Global Forest Watch
Near-real-time satellite monitoring of forest loss, with alerts you can subscribe to for a specific area
Dashboard Land Global
Go straight to Global Forest Watch - HMIS
Health Management Information System — monthly facility-level reporting on maternal health, immunisation and service delivery
Dashboard Health India
Go straight to HMIS - Humanitarian Data Exchange
UN OCHA's open repository of crisis and development data, including administrative boundaries for most countries
Data source Disasters Global
Go straight to Humanitarian Data Exchange - ILOSTAT
The ILO's labour statistics — employment, informality, wages, working time and union density, harmonised across countries
Data source Labour Global, India
Go straight to ILOSTAT - IMF Data
Macroeconomic and financial statistics — balance of payments, government finance, trade and the World Economic Outlook series
Data source Economy Global, India
Go straight to IMF Data - India Data Portal
Indian public datasets cleaned and standardised for research — agriculture, finance, elections, health and education, from ISB's Bharti Institute
Data source Agriculture India
Go straight to India Data Portal - India Meteorological Department
Official weather observations, forecasts, warnings and long-run rainfall records for India
Dashboard Climate India
Go straight to India Meteorological Department - India Under Construction
Maps India's infrastructure projects against protected areas and forest fragmentation, so you can see what is being built through what
Dashboard Land India
Go straight to India Under Construction - India Water Portal
Two decades of reporting, research and district-level rainfall data on Indian water, sanitation and groundwater
Publication Water India
Go straight to India Water Portal - India-WRIS
Water resources information system — rainfall, reservoir levels, groundwater, river flows and water quality across India
Data source Water India
Go straight to India-WRIS - IndiaSpend
Data-driven reporting on Indian public policy, from health spending to air quality, with the sources laid out
Publication Governance India
Go straight to IndiaSpend - Internet Archive
The web's memory — archived pages, books, government records and broadcasts, plus the Wayback Machine
Archive Media Global
Go straight to Internet Archive - KoboToolbox
Open-source field data collection that works offline on cheap phones, widely used for humanitarian and survey work
Tool Technology Global
Go straight to KoboToolbox - Land Conflict Watch
A researcher-built database of ongoing land conflicts across India, mapped and documented district by district
Data source Land India
Go straight to Land Conflict Watch - Manuscripts & Inscriptions Digitization Foundation
Builds a searchable, machine-readable repository of India's digitised manuscripts and inscriptions for research and public access
Organisation Culture & heritage India
Go straight to Manuscripts & Inscriptions Digitization Foundation - MGNREGA Public Data
Job cards, works, muster rolls and payments for India's rural employment guarantee, published down to panchayat level
Dashboard Welfare India
Go straight to MGNREGA Public Data - MoSPI MCP Server
27 official Indian statistical datasets, queryable in plain language from an AI assistant rather than through a download page
Data source Economy India
Go straight to MoSPI MCP Server - MoSPI Microdata Archive
Unit-level records from India's national sample surveys — the raw respondent data behind the published aggregates
Data source Economy India
Go straight to MoSPI Microdata Archive - Movebank
Repository of animal tracking data where researchers archive, share and analyse studies, hosted by the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Data source Environment Global
Go straight to Movebank - National Family Health Survey
India's large-scale household survey on health, nutrition, fertility and women's status, reported down to district level
Data source Health India
Go straight to National Family Health Survey - National Health Profile
Annual compendium of Indian health statistics — demography, disease burden, infrastructure, human resources and health finance
Publication Health India
Go straight to National Health Profile - National Judicial Data Grid
Live case pendency and disposal figures for India's district and high courts, broken down by age, court and case type
Dashboard Law & policing India
Go straight to National Judicial Data Grid - NCRB Crime in India
Annual national crime statistics compiled from state police records, plus accidental deaths and suicides
Data source Law & policing India
Go straight to NCRB Crime in India - NDAP
NITI Aayog's platform standardising government datasets to a common format so they can be merged across ministries
Data source Economy India
Go straight to NDAP - OECD Data Explorer
OECD statistics across economy, environment, health, education and public governance, with non-member countries including India
Data source Economy Global, India
Go straight to OECD Data Explorer - Ooru
Crowd-sourced directory of public community spaces across India — libraries, makerspaces, museums, science centres and galleries
Directory Culture & heritage India
Go straight to Ooru - Open Budgets India
Union, state and municipal budget documents converted from PDFs into machine-readable data you can actually analyse
Data source Public finance India
Go straight to Open Budgets India - OpenCity
Urban data for Indian cities — budgets, mobility, ward boundaries and public records, from official sources and community contributions
Data source Cities India, Karnataka
Go straight to OpenCity - OpenStreetMap
A map of the world built and owned by its contributors, and the base layer under a large share of civic mapping work
Data source Cities Global
Go straight to OpenStreetMap - Our World in Data
Long-run global data on health, poverty, energy and emissions, with every chart downloadable and every source cited
Publication Health Global
Go straight to Our World in Data - PARIVESH
Environmental, forest and wildlife clearance applications and decisions for Indian projects, with the documents attached
Data source Environment India
Go straight to PARIVESH - People's Archive of Rural India
A living archive of rural Indian life — reporting, photographs, oral histories and video, in more than a dozen languages
Archive Agriculture India
Go straight to People's Archive of Rural India - PRS Legislative Research
Plain-language summaries of every bill before the Indian Parliament, plus budget analysis and MP attendance records
Organisation Governance India
Go straight to PRS Legislative Research - Rainmatter Foundation
Funds and connects Indian organisations working on climate action, ecological restoration, and environment-linked livelihoods
Organisation Philanthropy India
Go straight to Rainmatter Foundation - RBI Database on Indian Economy
The Reserve Bank's statistical warehouse — money, banking, external sector, prices and public finance time series
Data source Economy India
Go straight to RBI Database on Indian Economy - Restor
Open data platform mapping restoration and conservation sites worldwide, with ecological and land-cover data attached to each
Dashboard Land Global
Go straight to Restor - Samagata Foundation
Funds and connects Indian projects creating public commons, institutions, community spaces, and lasting social value
Organisation Philanthropy India
Go straight to Samagata Foundation - Sanchaya
Builds open Kannada language technology, literary research tools, and freely accessible digital collections of books and periodicals
Organisation Culture & heritage India, Karnataka
Go straight to Sanchaya - Tech4Good Community
Helps Indian nonprofits build practical technology capacity, open-source infrastructure, and communities for lasting social impact
Organisation Technology India
Go straight to Tech4Good Community - UDISE+
School-level education statistics for every recognised school in India — enrolment, teachers, facilities and dropout
Data source Education India
Go straight to UDISE+ - UN Comtrade
Reported merchandise trade flows between countries by commodity code — around 200 countries and over 99% of world trade, going back decades
Data source Economy Global, India
Go straight to UN Comtrade - UN SDG Data Portal
Official country-level series for all Sustainable Development Goal indicators, with metadata on how each is defined
Data source Governance Global, India
Go straight to UN SDG Data Portal - UNdata
Single search across the UN system's statistical databases, from population and trade to energy and national accounts
Data source Demography Global, India
Go straight to UNdata - UNDP Human Development Reports
The Human Development Index and its components, plus inequality, gender and multidimensional poverty indices by country
Data source Welfare Global, India
Go straight to UNDP Human Development Reports - UNESCO Institute for Statistics
The global source for education statistics — enrolment, completion, literacy and education spending, by country
Data source Education Global, India
Go straight to UNESCO Institute for Statistics - UNICEF Data
Statistics on children and women — child mortality, nutrition, education, protection, and water and sanitation, by country
Data source Health Global, India
Go straight to UNICEF Data - UPAG
Unified Portal for Agricultural Statistics — crop area, production, yield and price data brought into one place
Data source Agriculture India
Go straight to UPAG - Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy
Independent legal think tank that drafts and critiques Indian legislation, and publishes the reasoning behind it
Organisation Governance India
Go straight to Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy - WHO Global Health Observatory
WHO's health statistics repository — mortality, disease burden, health systems and risk factors by country
Data source Health Global, India
Go straight to WHO Global Health Observatory - World Bank Open Data
Development indicators for every country back to 1960 — economy, poverty, health, education and infrastructure, with a documented open API
Data source Economy Global, India
Go straight to World Bank Open Data
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