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The Data Room

Twelve free, interactive explorers built on India's own official surveys and open academic data. Read on their own, each answers a plain-language question about the country. Read together, they trace one continuous life-course — from a child's first reading test to the wage economy, the smaller cities where it increasingly happens, the ballot box, the caste line drawn at the kitchen door — and, at the end, how the whole endeavour weighs on the planet.

Free forever · no login · no paywall · the government's own numbers
Why one room? A single survey is a snapshot. Placed side by side, these nineteen become a story with a spine — the same child who sits in an under-equipped classroom (UDISE+), struggles to read a simple paragraph (ASER), drifts further from the syllabus each year (NAS) and mostly never reaches college (AISHE) grows into the worker counted by PLFS, the migrant traced in the Census — increasingly bound for the Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities the LEAP index scores — and the voter tallied by the Election Commission — all the while carrying the caste line the IHDS still finds drawn at the kitchen door, and all of it running on the power grid the Energy explorer maps — while the Happy Planet Index asks what all of it costs the planet, and what it delivers in life. Pick your own state or district and read your own numbers.
01

Education — the school years

4 explorers
UDISE+ 2024-25 UDISE+ Explorer Is the room even ready to teach? School facilities & teachers across 782 districts — internet, libraries, computers, pupil-teacher ratios. Open → ASER 2012–2024 ASER Explorer Can India's children read & count? Rural foundational learning by state & district, tracked across a decade of the annual survey. Open → NAS 2021 NAS Explorer What do students actually know? Government-school achievement, Class 3 → 10, by state and down to district — with competency detail. Open → AISHE 2023-24 AISHE Explorer How many reach college? Higher-education enrolment by state and gender — who arrives at the last door, and who never does. Open →
02

Health & the household

1 explorer
NFHS-4 & NFHS-5 NFHS District Explorer How healthy is the household? Health, nutrition and family indicators for every Indian district, across two survey rounds, mapped. Open → NFHS-4 & NFHS-5 NFHS State Explorer Does the state figure describe rural or urban? 136 health and nutrition indicators by state, with rural and urban shown separately instead of combined into one number. Open →
03

Work & movement

2 explorers
PLFS PLFS Explorer Who works in India? The workforce by state — and the stubborn gap in women's labour-force participation. Open → Census migration tables Migration Explorer How many live away from home? Internal migration by state — how far and how many Indians move for work, marriage and study. Open →
04

The city economy

1 explorer
LEAP Cities Index 2026 · CC BY 4.0 LEAP Cities Explorer Which smaller cities have the strongest economies? 233 Tier-2 & Tier-3 cities scored across eight GVA-aligned pillars — ranked by any pillar, compared head-to-head, and searchable. The city economies official statistics can't see. Open →
05

Democracy & voice

1 explorer
ECI · Lok Sabha 2024 Election Turnout Who turned out to vote? Voter turnout in the 2024 general election, ranked across every state — with women near parity with men. Open →
06

Caste & social exclusion

1 explorer
IHDS-II · Thorat & Joshi IHDS Explorer Who still practises untouchability? Caste discrimination in everyday life — the share of households that practise untouchability, nationally and across the states the study named. Open →
07

Energy & the transition

1 explorer
Energy Statistics India 2025 · MoSPI Energy Explorer Where does India's power come from? The renewable energy each state could generate, what it has actually built, and the coal still under its ground — plus a decade of the national picture. The infrastructure the whole life-course runs on. Open → Budget at a Glance 2026-27 · Ministry of Finance Union Budget Explorer Where does the Union rupee actually go? What the Government of India collects and what it spends it on, head by head — and what your own income tax works out to across each of them. The money behind every other explorer here. Open →
08

Wellbeing & the planet

1 explorer
Happy Planet Index 2026 · Hot or Cool Institute HPI Explorer How much life does a country get per unit of planet? 157 countries, 2006–2025 — life expectancy × life satisfaction ÷ ecological footprint, with South Asia as its own region. Costa Rica leads; Bangladesh and Nepal beat India; watch India's two-decade satisfaction slide. Open →
09

Corporate money — the private budget

1 explorer
CSR expenditure 2018-19 to 2022-23 · Ministry of Corporate Affairs CSR Explorer Where does the CSR money go? India makes corporate charity a legal duty, and roughly ₹30,000 crore a year flows into development work. Which states receive it, which causes absorb it — and the near-quarter that is assigned to no state at all. Open →
10

Justice — custody and the wait

1 explorer
Prison Statistics India 2023 · NCRB · Department of Justice Prisons & Undertrials Explorer Who is actually in prison? Three in four people held in an Indian prison have not been convicted of anything. Overcrowding, how long undertrials have already waited, who they are, and the 45 million cases pending in the courts that keep them there. Open →
11

Air — what is measured, and where

1 explorer
Continuous monitoring stations · Central Pollution Control Board Air Quality Explorer What are the monitors actually reading? 502 stations across 265 cities and seven pollutants, station by station — and the six states and union territories with no station at all, which can never appear in a ranking of the worst air. Open →
12

Crime — what the machinery does with a case

1 explorer
Crime in India 2023 · National Crime Records Bureau Case Outcomes Explorer What happens after a case is registered? Not a ranking of dangerous states — registered crime measures reporting as much as crime. Instead: of the cases each state did register, how many reached a chargesheet, how many trials ended in conviction, and how much is still waiting. Atrocities against Scheduled Castes convict at 31.9% against 54.0% overall. Open →
13

The employment guarantee

1 explorer
MGNREGA district reports 2018-19 onward · Ministry of Rural Development MGNREGA Explorer How much of the hundred days arrives? The Act owes every rural household 100 days of paid work a year on demand. In 2025-26 the average household that worked got 42.7, and 4.0% reached the full hundred. Eight years, 757 districts, searchable. Open →
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Accountability — the claim & the audit

1 tracker
CAG · Parliamentary committees · official data Scheme Tracker What was announced, and what the audit found? India's big government schemes, two facts side by side: the official claim, and what the government's own auditor — the CAG — parliamentary committees, and official statistics reported. Both columns sourced; no commentary. Open →

How these are built. Every explorer draws on the official published survey — or, for the LEAP Cities Explorer and the HPI Explorer, on openly published academic datasets (Zenodo CC BY 4.0; the Hot or Cool Institute's public data file, cited as it requests) — no scraping of unofficial mirrors passed off as source, no invented figures. Where a number is derived (e.g. a district-level average assembled from official learning-outcome figures), the explorer says so plainly and shows how close it lands to the published total. If a figure can't be sourced and validated, it isn't shown. The Scheme Tracker follows the same rule with a different pairing — an official government claim beside an official audit finding (the CAG, a parliamentary committee, or official data), both cited, no commentary.

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