README.md

india-local-government-directory

Data dump of entities from the India Local Government Directory. These include the official listing of administrative units with unique identifier codes.

UPDATE: For the latest complete dump of https://lgdirectory.gov.in/ data in CSV format please see https://ramseraph.github.io/opendata/lgd/

Contents

Reference Lookups

• Municipal directory: City/town directory with mapping to other levels Urban local bodies with coverage
• Village directory: Village directory with mapping to other levels Subdistrict, Village, Block and GPS mapping

Administrative

• 1-State All States of India
• 2-District All Districts of India
• 3-Subdistrict (tehsil, taluka, mandal, circle) All Sub-Districts of India
• 4-Village All Villages of India
• Blocks All Blocks of India

Constituency

Parliament and assembly constituencies State Wise Parliament Constituency and Assembly Constituency

• Per state (incomplete)

Municipal

• Local bodies:
  • Rural local bodies (district/intermediate/village panchayat) All PRI Local Bodies of India
  • Traditional local bodies (village council/authority/development council/development commitee/employment council/development board, area employment council) All Traditional Local Bodies of India
  • Urban local bodies (municpal corporation, municipality, municipal council, town panchayat) All Urban Local Bodies of India
• Urban and rural wards
  • Urban wards per state (incomplete) Wards of Urban local bodies
  • Rural wards per state (incomplete) Wards of Rural local bodies

Metadata

Source

India Local Government Directory https://lgdirectory.gov.in/downloadDirectory.do

Date of retrieval

11 March 2022

License

Government Open Data License – India

Reference

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_India
• https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/India/Boundaries
• https://www.geonames.org/countries/IN/india.html

Updates

Contribute updates or missing files:

• Download the relevant file from https://lgdirectory.gov.in/downloadDirectory.do as a XLS
• Clean the XLS
  • Open XLS with LibreOffice, select all and clear direct formatting ctrl+m
  • Delete first 2 and last two rows
  • Merge and center any multi rows in header
  • Open CSV in a text editor for final cleanup
• Save as CSV

NOTE: lgdirectory CSV download no longer works as of 2011

• Download the relevant file from https://lgdirectory.gov.in/downloadDirectory.do as a CSV
• Validate CSV to make it searchable in Github
  • Set commas as delimiter. Replace ','->' ' and ';'->','
• Submit PR