forthepeople

# ForThePeople.in

> Free, independent website that shows district-level public data for Indian citizens: leaders and officers, budgets and projects, schemes, schools, hospitals, water, weather, crop prices, news and more. Data comes from government portals and other reputed sources, and every dataset shows its own date. Not an official government website. Open source (MIT).

## About this site

ForThePeople.in is maintained by Jayanth M B, a citizen in Karnataka, India. It collects publicly available data and presents it so that anyone, from a school student to a grandparent, can understand their district at a glance. It is neutral: a connecting tool between citizens and governance, not an opposition platform and not a government mouthpiece.

- **Sources:** government portals (for example data.gov.in / AGMARKNET, Census of India, Jal Jeevan Mission, UDISE+, PFMS, eGramSwaraj, PMAY, election commissions, eCourts, PIB, IMD and state portals) and other reputed sources (research institutions such as IIPS/NFHS and NITI Aayog, international bodies for national comparisons, OpenWeatherMap, news outlets for headlines). Each page lists its sources.
- **Freshness:** every dataset shows the date of its data. When the newest data we could find is old, the page says how many days old it is. Some datasets are refreshed by scheduled jobs; many are curated by hand from published sources. Nothing is labelled "live" unless it is less than 30 minutes old.
- **Honesty:** numbers are never invented or padded. If a source has no data, the page says so. Estimates are labelled as estimates. AI-written summaries are labelled and dated.
- **Languages:** English (default, `/en`), Hindi (beta, `/hi`) and Kannada (beta, `/kn`). Hindi and Kannada are machine drafts under review.
- **Cost:** free for everyone, no ads, no user accounts. Supported by voluntary contributions from citizens in India.

## Live districts

Ten districts in seven states are live (the list grows one district at a time):

- [Mandya, Karnataka](https://forthepeople.in/en/karnataka/mandya)
- [Mysuru, Karnataka](https://forthepeople.in/en/karnataka/mysuru)
- [Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka](https://forthepeople.in/en/karnataka/bengaluru-urban)
- [Hyderabad, Telangana](https://forthepeople.in/en/telangana/hyderabad)
- [Chennai, Tamil Nadu](https://forthepeople.in/en/tamil-nadu/chennai)
- [Mumbai, Maharashtra](https://forthepeople.in/en/maharashtra/mumbai)
- [Pune, Maharashtra](https://forthepeople.in/en/maharashtra/pune)
- [Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh](https://forthepeople.in/en/uttar-pradesh/lucknow)
- [Kolkata, West Bengal](https://forthepeople.in/en/west-bengal/kolkata)
- [New Delhi, Delhi](https://forthepeople.in/en/delhi/new-delhi)

Other districts can be browsed as previews, and visitors can vote for the next district to go live.

## District dashboards (36 modules in 9 groups)

Each live district has these pages at `https://forthepeople.in/{locale}/{state-slug}/{district-slug}/{module}`. The district overview is the district URL itself.

- **Start here:** news, alerts (alerts and warnings), weather (weather and rain)
- **You can help:** responsibility (what you can do), citizen-corner (helplines and your rights), file-rti (ask the government with an RTI request), rti (RTI replies tracker)
- **Who runs it:** leadership (leaders and officers), elections, gram-panchayat (village councils), courts, police (police and safety)
- **Money and projects:** finance (budget), infrastructure (projects being built), tenders (government contracts), industries (local industries)
- **Help for you:** schemes (government schemes), housing (housing schemes), services (how to get certificates), offices (government offices near you), exams (exams and jobs)
- **Daily needs:** jjm (tap water), water (dams and rivers), power (power cuts), transport (buses and trains), health (hospitals and health), schools
- **Farming:** crops (crop prices), farm (farm and soil advice)
- **Know your district:** population (people, census), map, famous-personalities (famous people), contributors (supporters)
- **Check our work:** data-sources (where our data comes from), update-log (what changed and when)

Not every module has data for every district; a module without data says so.

## Key pages

- [Home](https://forthepeople.in/en): find your district or explore all of India
- [All of India](https://forthepeople.in/en/india): national figures by topic, with sources and dates
- [Mandya overview](https://forthepeople.in/en/karnataka/mandya): an example district
- [Mandya crop prices](https://forthepeople.in/en/karnataka/mandya/crops): mandi prices with dates
- [Mandya dams and rivers](https://forthepeople.in/en/karnataka/mandya/water): reservoir levels with dates
- [Mandya leaders and officers](https://forthepeople.in/en/karnataka/mandya/leadership): MP, MLAs and district officers
- [Mandya where our data comes from](https://forthepeople.in/en/karnataka/mandya/data-sources): sources and freshness for every module
- [Prices today](https://forthepeople.in/en/prices): gold, silver, the rupee, crude oil and share indices with trends
- [Compare districts](https://forthepeople.in/en/compare)
- [Vote for the next district](https://forthepeople.in/en/vote-district)
- [About](https://forthepeople.in/en/about): mission, method and disclaimer
- [Contribute](https://forthepeople.in/en/contribute): how to help, report a data error or add a district
- [Support](https://forthepeople.in/en/support): voluntary contributions
- [Source code](https://github.com/jayanthmb14/forthepeople): MIT licence

## Data glossary

- **AGMARKNET:** Agricultural Marketing Information Network, the government portal for mandi prices
- **APMC:** Agricultural Produce Market Committee (a regulated market, or mandi)
- **MCM:** million cubic metres (dam storage)
- **Cusecs:** cubic feet per second (water flow)
- **RTI:** Right to Information Act, 2005
- **NDSAP:** National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy, 2012
- **MGNREGA:** Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
- **PM-KISAN:** Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (income support for farmers)
- **PMAY:** Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (housing scheme)
- **JJM:** Jal Jeevan Mission (a tap-water connection for every rural home)
- **SSLC:** Secondary School Leaving Certificate, the Class 10 board exam in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu (SSC in Maharashtra and Telangana, Madhyamik in West Bengal)