APIs for States, Districts, ... Panchayats

[Ashim Jain]

I'm building mobile apps for the unorganized sector (asangathit mazdoor kisan).

In the app's home address section, there are dropdowns for State, District, Subdistrict (Taluk/Tehsil), Block and Panchayat.  I need the data for this but via APIs because the government keeps changing it.

I've managed to find APIs that fetch recent data for:

STATES

DISTRICTS

SUBDISTRICTS

However, I can't find similar APIs for BLOCKS and PANCHAYATS.  The APIs listed for these are fetching old/obsolete data.  These old APIs are:

Blocks, Panchayats

Can anyone help to find APIs for Blocks and Panchayats that fetch recent data?

Thank you in advance.

- Ashim

[sreeram kandimalla]

I take a daily backup of LGD at https://ramseraph.github.io/opendata/lgd/  

No APIs just plain csv files. 

If anyone wants to have a go at building an API around it.. that would be awesome :)

[Atanu Garai]

Hi Ashim,

Would you be interested in using our (SocialWell) API for this? We have also maps, population and agri related data mapped to the locations.

Best regards,

Atanu

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[Ashim Jain]

Hi Atanu,

If your APIs are able to fetch recent data that is accurate, I'd be interested in using it.

What is the pricing structure?

Thanks.
- Ashim
   

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[atanu...@gmail.com]

Hi Ashim,

Let us put a rate limiter in the API and then would share the API docs.

 

There is no pricing yet because we have not yet released the API for dev communities. We would do that in the last quarter of this year. At this point, our goal is to understand developer requirements and finetune our APIs accordingly.

 

Best regards,

Atanu

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[Ashim Jain]

Hi Sreeram,

The data you're backing up appears to be obsolete because I downloaded your ZIP file 12 Jan 2024, which has only 33 districts in Rajasthan, whereas there should be 50.

The APIs I gave have the latest districts data.

- Ashim

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[sreeram kandimalla]

Hey Ashim,

I checked. Looks fine. Are you looking at districts.csv?

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[Ashim Jain]

Hi Sreeram,

Filter "blocks.csv" data for Rajasthan, and then count the number of unique districts in the districts column (District Name in English).  It shows 33.

If you use "districts.csv" it will show 50.  So there is clearly something wrong.

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[sreeram kandimalla]

Hey Ashim,

Looks like LGD has not updated the block mappings for Rajasthan, as can be seen by looking at Sanchore District at https://lgdirectory.gov.in/globalviewBlockforcitizen.do .

The dumps reflect what is in LGD so nothing I can do there.

I think the block to district mapping can be reconstructed using the villages_by_blocks.csv and villages.csv files. I hope that works out. 

Thanks,

Sreeram K

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