Governance, Census & Legal

Census data, election results, government resolutions, legislation, and demographic datasets.

17 datasets

District-Level Tables — Comprehensive demographic data including population, literacy, SC/ST, workers, religion, and housing for Maharashtra at village, town, and district levels

Build a district-level demographic dashboard for Maharashtra
Tabular (Excel, CSV, PDF)
Registrar General of India

Village-level amenities data from Census 2011 covering educational facilities (pre-primary through degree colleges), medical facilities (PHC, CHC, hospitals), water sources (tap, well, hand pump), banking, post offices, and communication infrastructure for all Maharashtra villages.

Build an infrastructure gap analyzer for Maharashtra villages that identifies the most underserved areas needing investment.
tabular
Census of India / data.gov.in

Maharashtra — Annual crime statistics from the National Crime Records Bureau covering IPC crimes, SLL cases, crimes against women, cybercrime, and police data for Maharashtra

Build a crime analytics dashboard for Maharashtra districts showing patterns, trends, and hotspots by crime type.
Tabular (PDF, Excel)
National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)

Maharashtra Results — Constituency-wise election results for Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha elections in Maharashtra including candidate, party, and vote count data

Build an election analytics platform for Maharashtra showing voting patterns, swing constituencies, and demographic correlations.
Tabular (web, PDF)
Election Commission of India

Global population grid at 100m resolution from 1975 to 2030 in 5-year intervals, disaggregated using GHSL built-up surface and CIESIN census data. Maharashtra subset enables historical population density analysis across 50+ years.

Build a population exposure analysis tool for Maharashtra combining gridded population with hazard maps for disaster planning.
raster-gridded
European Commission JRC

Comprehensive Indian legal NLP benchmark with 8 tasks in Marathi including Legal NER, Rhetorical Role Prediction, Court Judgment Prediction, Bail Prediction, Legal Statute Identification, Prior Case Retrieval, Summarization, and Legal Machine Translation. Far more structured than raw court document text.

Build a legal document search engine for Maharashtra courts that enables semantic search across case law in Marathi.
text
Exploration Lab (ACL 2024)

Maharashtra Acts and Laws — Digital repository of all Maharashtra state enactments including acts, rules, regulations, notifications, and ordinances in searchable format

Build a legal search engine for Maharashtra-specific laws and central acts applicable in the state.
Text (PDF, HTML)
Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of India

Bombay High Court Judgments — Searchable database of Supreme Court and Bombay High Court judgments with full text, available for legal research and analysis

Build a Bombay High Court case law search engine with semantic search capabilities for Maharashtra legal professionals.
Text (HTML)
Indian Kanoon (Community Legal Database)

Maharashtra MPs — Parliamentary questions and answers raised by Maharashtra Members of Parliament available through the open parliament data platform

Build a parliamentary accountability tracker analyzing government responses to questions about Maharashtra issues.
Text (web, PDF)
Parliament of India

Full text of ~47,000 Government Resolutions from 33 departments in Marathi and English (AI-translated), updated weekly

Build a structured knowledge base from Maharashtra GRs using Orgpedia's entity-extracted data for policy research.
Text (Marathi + English)
Orgpedia Foundation / Government of Maharashtra

Debates, questions, and legislative proceedings from the Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha and Vidhan Parishad

Build a legislative analytics platform analyzing Maharashtra assembly debates by topic, member, and party positions.
Text (web, PDF)
Maharashtra Legislature Secretariat

Local governance data from the three-tier panchayati raj system covering village panchayats, taluka panchayats, and zilla parishads in Maharashtra

Build a gram panchayat performance dashboard for Maharashtra tracking local governance and development metrics.
Tabular (web)
Department of Rural Development, Government of Maharashtra

Local Body Elections — Election data for municipal corporations, municipal councils, nagar panchayats, and zilla parishad elections in Maharashtra

Build a local body election analytics platform for Maharashtra covering gram panchayat to municipal corporation levels.
Tabular (web)
Election Commission of India

Census-based gridded population counts and density at ~1km (30 arc-second) resolution for 5-year intervals from 2000 to 2020 with projections to 2025. Essential for disaster risk assessment, urban planning, and service delivery planning when overlaid with satellite data for Maharashtra.

Build a population exposure analysis tool for Maharashtra hazards using NASA SEDAC gridded population.
gridded
NASA SEDAC / CIESIN Columbia

Largest Indian legal judgment prediction dataset with 702,945 preprocessed court cases from Supreme Court, High Courts, Tribunals, and District Courts (collected from Indian Kanoon up to April 2024). Includes Maharashtra cases from Bombay High Court and district courts with structured judgment outcome labels.

Build a legal precedent search engine for Bombay High Court judgments enabling semantic search over case law.
text
COLING 2025

Maharashtra — Right to Information request and response data from the Maharashtra Information Commission tracking transparency and governance accountability

Build an RTI analytics platform analyzing government transparency trends and response patterns in Maharashtra.
Text, Tabular (web)
Department of Personnel and Training, Government of India

Annual population estimates at 100m resolution for 2000-2030 using Random Forest dasymetric disaggregation. Maharashtra subset provides village-level population grids far more granular than census ward boundaries.

Build a hyper-local population exposure analyzer for Maharashtra at 100m resolution for service delivery planning.
raster-gridded
WorldPop / University of Southampton