# Soochi > An index of the organisations, datasets, tools and archives that people working on public problems actually use. Every entry is one link, described in one hand-written sentence, and tagged from a fixed vocabulary. 87 entries, last added 2026-08-06. If you need this data, fetch https://soochi.fyi/index.json — it is the whole index in one file under CC0, and it is cheaper for you and for us than crawling the pages. Everything below describes what is in it. Descriptions are written by hand and capped at 160 characters; nothing here is scraped. Entries that go dark are marked dormant, then dead, rather than deleted, so the record of what used to exist survives. ## Data - [index.json](https://soochi.fyi/index.json): The complete index, CC0. One JSON object per entry with every field. - [RSS feed](https://soochi.fyi/rss.xml): The 50 most recently added entries. - [Sitemap](https://soochi.fyi/sitemap-index.xml): Every page. ## Pages - [Index](https://soochi.fyi/): All entries, filterable by kind, topic, place and access. - [Map](https://soochi.fyi/map): Where the organisations are based — not where their work applies. Only entries with a physical home appear. - [About](https://soochi.fyi/about): What gets listed, what does not, and how the index is kept honest. - [Contribute](https://soochi.fyi/contribute): How to add or correct an entry. - [Add an entry](https://soochi.fyi/submit): A form that opens a pull request. No GitHub account needed. ## Vocabulary Every entry has exactly one kind, one to four topics, and at least one place. These are closed lists — an entry cannot carry a term outside them. ### Kinds - organisation: A body doing the work — research, advocacy, service delivery - dataset: Data you can download or query here — one survey or a whole statistical service - directory: A curated list that sends you elsewhere — it holds links, not data - tool: Software you run to do a job - publication: Writing and reporting you read - dashboard: A live view of data someone else keeps current - archive: A record kept so it is not lost - community: People to ask, and a place to ask them ### Topics Grouped for readability; an entry carries the flat term only. **People & society** - health: Health - nutrition: Nutrition - education: Education - gender: Gender - caste: Caste - disability: Disability - migration: Migration - welfare: Welfare **Work & money** - labour: Labour - economy: Economy - public-finance: Public finance - philanthropy: Philanthropy **Land & nature** - agriculture: Agriculture - land: Land - environment: Environment - climate: Climate - energy: Energy - water: Water - disasters: Disasters **Cities** - cities: Cities - housing: Housing - transport: Transport **Governance** - governance: Governance - transparency: Transparency - elections: Elections - justice: Law & policing - rights: Rights **Information** - media: Media - technology: Technology - demography: Demography - culture: Culture & heritage ### Places Indian entries carry states, because states are the units India administers and publishes data for. Sub-national work carries its state and "india". - india: India - andhra-pradesh: Andhra Pradesh - arunachal-pradesh: Arunachal Pradesh - assam: Assam - bihar: Bihar - chhattisgarh: Chhattisgarh - goa: Goa - gujarat: Gujarat - haryana: Haryana - himachal-pradesh: Himachal Pradesh - jharkhand: Jharkhand - karnataka: Karnataka - kerala: Kerala - madhya-pradesh: Madhya Pradesh - maharashtra: Maharashtra - manipur: Manipur - meghalaya: Meghalaya - mizoram: Mizoram - nagaland: Nagaland - odisha: Odisha - punjab: Punjab - rajasthan: Rajasthan - sikkim: Sikkim - tamil-nadu: Tamil Nadu - telangana: Telangana - tripura: Tripura - uttar-pradesh: Uttar Pradesh - uttarakhand: Uttarakhand - west-bengal: West Bengal - andaman-nicobar: Andaman & Nicobar Islands - chandigarh: Chandigarh - dadra-nagar-haveli-daman-diu: Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu - delhi: Delhi - jammu-kashmir: Jammu & Kashmir - ladakh: Ladakh - lakshadweep: Lakshadweep - puducherry: Puducherry - global: Global - asia: Asia - africa: Africa - europe: Europe - north-america: North America - south-america: South America - oceania: Oceania ### Licence - open: Open licence - partly-open: Partly open - proprietary: Proprietary - unknown: Licence unclear ### Cost - free: Free - registration: Registration required - paid: Paid ## Composition - Organisation: 8 - Data source: 50 - Directory: 2 - Tool: 2 - Publication: 7 - Dashboard: 13 - Archive: 4 - Community: 1 ## Entries - [Agmarknet](https://soochi.fyi/e/agmarknet): Daily wholesale prices and arrivals for agricultural commodities, reported from regulated markets across India. Dashboard, India. Source: https://agmarknet.gov.in - [Agriculture Census of India](https://soochi.fyi/e/agriculture-census): Five-yearly statistics on operational holdings, holding size, land use, irrigation, tenancy and farmer characteristics. Data source, India. Source: https://agcensus.gov.in/ - [All India Survey on Higher Education](https://soochi.fyi/e/aishe): Annual institution-level statistics on higher-education enrolment, teachers, courses, results, finance and infrastructure. Data source, India. Source: https://aishe.gov.in/ - [Annual Survey of Industries](https://soochi.fyi/e/annual-survey-industries): Factory-level data on employment, wages, inputs, output, value added, capital, energy use and industrial structure. Data source, India. Source: https://microdata.gov.in/NADA/index.php/catalog/ASI - [ASER Centre](https://soochi.fyi/e/aser-centre): Runs the Annual Status of Education Report, a household survey measuring what rural Indian children can actually read and count. Organisation, India. Source: https://asercentre.org - [Bhukosh](https://soochi.fyi/e/bhukosh): Geological Survey of India's map and geoscience portal for geology, minerals, geochemistry and exploration layers. Data source, India. Source: https://bhukosh.gsi.gov.in/Bhukosh/Public - [Bhuvan](https://soochi.fyi/e/bhuvan): ISRO's geoportal — satellite imagery, thematic map layers and administrative boundaries for India. Data source, India. Source: https://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in - [CAG State Accounts](https://soochi.fyi/e/cag-state-accounts): State Finance Accounts, Appropriation Accounts, monthly fiscal indicators and machine-readable finance data. Archive, India. Source: https://cag.gov.in/en/state-accounts-report?defuat_state_id=92 - [Census of India](https://soochi.fyi/e/census-india): The decennial census — population, household, migration and housing tables down to village and ward level. Data source, India. Source: https://censusindia.gov.in - [Community Conserved Areas Portal](https://soochi.fyi/e/cca-map): Participatory portal documenting community conserved areas across South Asia, with locations, ecosystems, areas and legal status. Data source, India. Source: https://communityconservedareas.org/ - [CPCB Air Quality](https://soochi.fyi/e/cpcb-air-quality): Live and historical air quality readings from India's continuous monitoring stations, with the National Air Quality Index. Dashboard, India. Source: https://airquality.cpcb.gov.in - [Data for India](https://soochi.fyi/e/data-for-india): Curated charts and underlying data on how India lives, earns and grows, built for people who are not statisticians. Data source, India. Source: https://www.dataforindia.com - [data.gov.in](https://soochi.fyi/e/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, India. Source: https://www.data.gov.in - [DataMeet](https://soochi.fyi/e/datameet): India's open data community — mailing list, city chapters, and the maintainers behind several widely used boundary datasets. Community, India. Source: https://datameet.org - [Development Data Lab](https://soochi.fyi/e/development-data-lab): Research group publishing SHRUG, an open geographic platform linking Indian census, economic and night-lights data. Data source, India. Source: https://www.devdatalab.org - [Digital Sansad](https://soochi.fyi/e/sansad): Official record of the Indian Parliament — questions and answers, debates, bills, committee reports and member details. Data source, India. Source: https://sansad.in - [eGramSwaraj](https://soochi.fyi/e/egramswaraj): Panchayat profiles, elected representatives, development plans, works, receipts, expenditure, accounts and audits. Dashboard, India. Source: https://egramswaraj.gov.in/ - [Election Commission of India](https://soochi.fyi/e/eci): Official election results, electoral rolls, candidate affidavits and statistical reports for national and state elections. Data source, India. Source: https://www.eci.gov.in - [env.wiki](https://soochi.fyi/e/env-wiki): Directory of organisations working on environment and sustainability across India, sorted into some thirty-six categories. Directory, India. Source: https://env.wiki - [eSankhyiki](https://soochi.fyi/e/esankhyiki): MoSPI's own data portal — national accounts, CPI, industrial production, labour force and consumption surveys, with an API. Data source, India. Source: https://esankhyiki.mospi.gov.in - [FAOSTAT](https://soochi.fyi/e/faostat): FAO's food and agriculture statistics — production, trade, land use, food balance sheets and emissions, by country since 1961. Data source, Global/India. Source: https://www.fao.org/faostat - [Forest Survey of India](https://soochi.fyi/e/forest-survey-india): The India State of Forest Report — biennial satellite assessment of forest and tree cover, state by state and district by district. Publication, India. Source: https://fsi.nic.in/indexx.php - [GeoLibre](https://soochi.fyi/e/geolibre): Free, private-by-design GIS for visualising, editing, and analysing geospatial data across browsers, desktops, mobile, and Jupyter. Tool, Global. Source: https://geolibre.app - [Global Forest Watch](https://soochi.fyi/e/global-forest-watch): Near-real-time satellite monitoring of forest loss, with alerts you can subscribe to for a specific area. Dashboard, Global. Source: https://www.globalforestwatch.org - [HMIS](https://soochi.fyi/e/hmis): Health Management Information System — monthly facility-level reporting on maternal health, immunisation and service delivery. Dashboard, India. Source: https://hmis.mohfw.gov.in - [Household Consumption Expenditure Survey](https://soochi.fyi/e/hces): Household spending and consumption microdata used to study living standards, poverty, inequality and inflation weights. Data source, India. Source: https://microdata.gov.in/NADA/index.php/catalog/237 - [Humanitarian Data Exchange](https://soochi.fyi/e/humanitarian-data-exchange): UN OCHA's open repository of crisis and development data, including administrative boundaries for most countries. Data source, Global. Source: https://data.humdata.org - [ILOSTAT](https://soochi.fyi/e/ilostat): The ILO's labour statistics — employment, informality, wages, working time and union density, harmonised across countries. Data source, Global/India. Source: https://ilostat.ilo.org - [IMF Data](https://soochi.fyi/e/imf-data): Macroeconomic and financial statistics — balance of payments, government finance, trade and the World Economic Outlook series. Data source, Global/India. Source: https://data.imf.org - [India Data Portal](https://soochi.fyi/e/india-data-portal): Indian public datasets cleaned and standardised for research — agriculture, finance, elections, health and education, from ISB's Bharti Institute. Data source, India. Source: https://indiadataportal.com - [India Meteorological Department](https://soochi.fyi/e/imd): Official weather observations, forecasts, warnings and long-run rainfall records for India. Dashboard, India. Source: https://mausam.imd.gov.in - [India Under Construction](https://soochi.fyi/e/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, India. Source: https://indiaunderconstruction.com - [India Water Portal](https://soochi.fyi/e/india-water-portal): Two decades of reporting, research and district-level rainfall data on Indian water, sanitation and groundwater. Publication, India. Source: https://www.indiawaterportal.org - [India-WRIS](https://soochi.fyi/e/india-wris): Water resources information system — rainfall, reservoir levels, groundwater, river flows and water quality across India. Data source, India. Source: https://indiawris.gov.in - [IndiaSpend](https://soochi.fyi/e/indiaspend): Data-driven reporting on Indian public policy, from health spending to air quality, with the sources laid out. Publication, India. Source: https://www.indiaspend.com - [Internet Archive](https://soochi.fyi/e/internet-archive): The web's memory — archived pages, books, government records and broadcasts, plus the Wayback Machine. Archive, Global. Source: https://archive.org - [Jal Jeevan Mission Dashboard](https://soochi.fyi/e/jal-jeevan-mission-dashboard): Rural tap-water coverage, village certification, water quality, scheme progress and mission finances down to habitation level. Dashboard, India. Source: https://ejalshakti.gov.in/JJMReport/ - [KoboToolbox](https://soochi.fyi/e/kobotoolbox): Open-source field data collection that works offline on cheap phones, widely used for humanitarian and survey work. Tool, Global. Source: https://www.kobotoolbox.org - [Land Conflict Watch](https://soochi.fyi/e/land-conflict-watch): A researcher-built database of ongoing land conflicts across India, mapped and documented district by district. Data source, India. Source: https://www.landconflictwatch.org - [Local Government Directory](https://soochi.fyi/e/local-government-directory): Canonical government codes and mappings for states, districts, villages, panchayats, urban bodies, wards and constituencies. Data source, India. Source: https://lgdirectory.gov.in/demo/downloadDirectory.do - [Manuscripts & Inscriptions Digitization Foundation](https://soochi.fyi/e/midf): Builds a searchable, machine-readable repository of India's digitised manuscripts and inscriptions for research and public access. Organisation, India. Source: https://midf.org.in - [MCA Company Statistics](https://soochi.fyi/e/mca-company-statistics): Official monthly and annual statistics on company registrations, active companies, closures, capital and sector distribution. Publication, India. Source: https://www.mca.gov.in/content/mca/global/en/data-and-reports/company-statistics.html - [MGNREGA Public Data](https://soochi.fyi/e/nrega-public-data): Job cards, works, muster rolls and payments for India's rural employment guarantee, published down to panchayat level. Dashboard, India. Source: https://nrega.dord.gov.in - [MoSPI MCP Server](https://soochi.fyi/e/mospi-mcp): 27 official Indian statistical datasets, queryable in plain language from an AI assistant rather than through a download page. Data source, India. Source: https://github.com/nso-india/esankhyiki-mcp - [MoSPI Microdata Archive](https://soochi.fyi/e/mospi-microdata): Unit-level records from India's national sample surveys — the raw respondent data behind the published aggregates. Data source, India. Source: https://microdata.gov.in - [Movebank](https://soochi.fyi/e/movebank): Repository of animal tracking data where researchers archive, share and analyse studies, hosted by the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior. Data source, Global. Source: https://www.movebank.org - [National Family Health Survey](https://soochi.fyi/e/nfhs): India's large-scale household survey on health, nutrition, fertility and women's status, reported down to district level. Data source, India. Source: https://www.nfhsiips.in/nfhsuser/index.php - [National Health Profile](https://soochi.fyi/e/national-health-profile): Annual compendium of Indian health statistics — demography, disease burden, infrastructure, human resources and health finance. Publication, India. Source: https://cbhidghs.mohfw.gov.in - [National Judicial Data Grid](https://soochi.fyi/e/njdg): Live case pendency and disposal figures for India's district and high courts, broken down by age, court and case type. Dashboard, India. Source: https://njdg.ecourts.gov.in - [National Power Portal](https://soochi.fyi/e/national-power-portal): Daily and monthly electricity generation, capacity, demand, fuel, outages, reservoirs and transmission reports. Data source, India. Source: https://www.npp.gov.in/publishedReports - [NCRB Crime in India](https://soochi.fyi/e/ncrb): Annual national crime statistics compiled from state police records, plus accidental deaths and suicides. Data source, India. Source: https://www.ncrb.gov.in - [NDAP](https://soochi.fyi/e/ndap): NITI Aayog's platform standardising government datasets to a common format so they can be merged across ministries. Data source, India. Source: https://ndap.niti.gov.in - [NFSA and Public Distribution Dashboard](https://soochi.fyi/e/nfsa-dashboard): Ration cards, beneficiaries, fair-price shops, foodgrain allocation, distribution and portability under the NFSA. Dashboard, India. Source: https://nfsa.gov.in/ - [OECD Data Explorer](https://soochi.fyi/e/oecd-data): OECD statistics across economy, environment, health, education and public governance, with non-member countries including India. Data source, Global/India. Source: https://data-explorer.oecd.org - [Ooru](https://soochi.fyi/e/ooru): Crowd-sourced directory of public community spaces across India — libraries, makerspaces, museums, science centres and galleries. Directory, India. Source: https://ooru.space - [Open Budgets India](https://soochi.fyi/e/open-budgets-india): Union, state and municipal budget documents converted from PDFs into machine-readable data you can actually analyse. Data source, India. Source: https://openbudgetsindia.org - [OpenCity](https://soochi.fyi/e/open-city): Urban data for Indian cities — budgets, mobility, ward boundaries and public records, from official sources and community contributions. Data source, India/Karnataka. Source: https://opencity.in - [OpenStreetMap](https://soochi.fyi/e/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, Global. Source: https://www.openstreetmap.org - [Our World in Data](https://soochi.fyi/e/our-world-in-data): Long-run global data on health, poverty, energy and emissions, with every chart downloadable and every source cited. Publication, Global. Source: https://ourworldindata.org - [PARIVESH](https://soochi.fyi/e/parivesh): Environmental, forest and wildlife clearance applications and decisions for Indian projects, with the documents attached. Data source, India. Source: https://parivesh.nic.in - [People's Archive of Rural India](https://soochi.fyi/e/peoples-archive-of-rural-india): A living archive of rural Indian life — reporting, photographs, oral histories and video, in more than a dozen languages. Archive, India. Source: https://ruralindiaonline.org - [Periodic Labour Force Survey](https://soochi.fyi/e/plfs): India's principal recurring survey of employment, unemployment, labour-force participation and working conditions. Data source, India. Source: https://microdata.gov.in/NADA/index.php/catalog/PLFS - [PPAC Petroleum Statistics](https://soochi.fyi/e/ppac-petroleum-statistics): Petroleum and natural-gas production, imports, refining, consumption, prices, taxes and industry infrastructure. Data source, India. Source: https://ppac.gov.in/index.php - [PRS Legislative Research](https://soochi.fyi/e/prs-legislative-research): Plain-language summaries of every bill before the Indian Parliament, plus budget analysis and MP attendance records. Organisation, India. Source: https://prsindia.org - [Rainmatter Foundation](https://soochi.fyi/e/rainmatter-foundation): Funds and connects Indian organisations working on climate action, ecological restoration, and environment-linked livelihoods. Organisation, India. Source: https://rainmatter.org - [RBI Database on Indian Economy](https://soochi.fyi/e/rbi-dbie): The Reserve Bank's statistical warehouse — money, banking, external sector, prices and public finance time series. Data source, India. Source: https://dbie.rbi.org.in - [Restor](https://soochi.fyi/e/restor): Open data platform mapping restoration and conservation sites worldwide, with ecological and land-cover data attached to each. Dashboard, Global. Source: https://restor.eco - [Samagata Foundation](https://soochi.fyi/e/samagata-foundation): Funds and connects Indian projects creating public commons, institutions, community spaces, and lasting social value. Organisation, India. Source: https://samagata.org - [Sanchaya](https://soochi.fyi/e/sanchaya): Builds open Kannada language technology, literary research tools, and freely accessible digital collections of books and periodicals. Organisation, India/Karnataka. Source: https://sanchaya.org - [SRS and Vital Statistics](https://soochi.fyi/e/srs-vital-statistics): Official birth, death, fertility, infant mortality, life expectancy and cause-of-death statistics for India. Data source, India. Source: https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/home - [Survey of India Online Maps Portal](https://soochi.fyi/e/survey-of-india-maps): Official administrative boundaries, topographic maps, roads, railways, hydrology, terrain and village boundary products. Data source, India. Source: https://onlinemaps.surveyofindia.gov.in/ - [Tech4Good Community](https://soochi.fyi/e/tech4good-community): Helps Indian nonprofits build practical technology capacity, open-source infrastructure, and communities for lasting social impact. Organisation, India. Source: https://www.tech4goodcommunity.com - [TradeStat](https://soochi.fyi/e/tradestat): Official monthly merchandise imports and exports by commodity, country, region and Indian port. Data source, India/Global. Source: https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/ftspcc/ttrade_region_wise_all_countries - [TRAI Telecom Performance Indicators](https://soochi.fyi/e/trai-performance-indicators): Quarterly and annual statistics on telecom subscribers, broadband, teledensity, usage, revenue and service quality. Publication, India. Source: https://www.trai.gov.in/release-publication/reports/performance-indicators-reports - [UDISE+](https://soochi.fyi/e/udise-plus): School-level education statistics for every recognised school in India — enrolment, teachers, facilities and dropout. Data source, India. Source: https://udiseplus.gov.in - [UN Comtrade](https://soochi.fyi/e/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, Global/India. Source: https://comtradeplus.un.org - [UN SDG Data Portal](https://soochi.fyi/e/un-sdg-data): Official country-level series for all Sustainable Development Goal indicators, with metadata on how each is defined. Data source, Global/India. Source: https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/dataportal - [UNdata](https://soochi.fyi/e/un-data): Single search across the UN system's statistical databases, from population and trade to energy and national accounts. Data source, Global/India. Source: https://data.un.org - [UNDP Human Development Reports](https://soochi.fyi/e/undp-hdr): The Human Development Index and its components, plus inequality, gender and multidimensional poverty indices by country. Data source, Global/India. Source: https://hdr.undp.org - [UNESCO Institute for Statistics](https://soochi.fyi/e/unesco-uis): The global source for education statistics — enrolment, completion, literacy and education spending, by country. Data source, Global/India. Source: https://uis.unesco.org - [UNICEF Data](https://soochi.fyi/e/unicef-data): Statistics on children and women — child mortality, nutrition, education, protection, and water and sanitation, by country. Data source, Global/India. Source: https://data.unicef.org - [Union Budget of India](https://soochi.fyi/e/union-budget): Official Union government receipts, expenditure, fiscal indicators, ministry allocations and scheme outlays. Archive, India. Source: https://indiabudget.gov.in/ - [UPAG](https://soochi.fyi/e/upag): Unified Portal for Agricultural Statistics — crop area, production, yield and price data brought into one place. Data source, India. Source: https://upag.gov.in - [VAHAN Public Dashboard](https://soochi.fyi/e/vahan-dashboard): Vehicle registrations by class, fuel, maker, model, state and registering office across India's VAHAN system. Dashboard, India. Source: https://analytics.parivahan.gov.in/analytics - [Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy](https://soochi.fyi/e/vidhi-centre-for-legal-policy): Independent legal think tank that drafts and critiques Indian legislation, and publishes the reasoning behind it. Organisation, India. Source: https://vidhilegalpolicy.in - [WHO Global Health Observatory](https://soochi.fyi/e/who-gho): WHO's health statistics repository — mortality, disease burden, health systems and risk factors by country. Data source, Global/India. Source: https://www.who.int/data/gho - [World Bank Open Data](https://soochi.fyi/e/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, Global/India. Source: https://data.worldbank.org ## Accuracy Entries are checked by a human before publication and links are re-checked weekly, but descriptions are editorial summaries rather than quotations. Cite the linked source, not this index, for any claim about an organisation.