Village Finder is an open-source, serverless, and multilingual map tracking over 78,000 villages across Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu. By transforming the Government of India's raw Local Government Directory (LGD) data into fluid, searchable maps, it connects rural locations to live mandi prices, land parcels, weather, and soil data all maintained by fully automated, validated CI/CD pipelines.
Here is what’s new in our latest release.
🔥 New Features & Capabilities
🏛️ Integrated Farmer Schemes Panel
Cultivators can now discover exactly which Central and State welfare benefits they qualify for (focused on the "Agriculture, Rural & Environment" sectors).
- True Localization: Scheme names are completely translated across all six UI scripts (English, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Hindi, and Urdu).
- Seamless Action: The list is fully searchable, grouped cleanly by Central vs. State jurisdiction, and every single entry features a direct link to its formal "how-to-apply" portal on the national myScheme platform.
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Under the Hood: A new automated worker (
scraper/fetch_farmer_schemes.pyorchestrated byupdate-farmer-schemes.yml) snapshots the myScheme discovery API weekly, pushing compressed tracking arrays to a dedicateddata/farmer-schemesbranch. The frontend client (web/schemes.js) queries this lightweight data branch directly at runtime with zero server overhead.
🧪 Static Farm-Inputs Reference Directory
To protect farmers from localized retail overcharging, the utility panel now surfaces official government-notified commodity benchmarks:
- Displays statutory Urea Maximum Retail Prices (MRP) alongside NBS-subsidized DAP reference baselines.
- Provides verified web paths straight to the official live fertilizer-stock tracking networks (iFMS/urvarak) and national Soil Health Card registries.
🛠️ Engineering Note on Data Integrity: Live structural API integrations for real-time stock levels and individual soil cards were evaluated and intentionally skipped. The
urvarak.nic.ingateway actively drops automated HTTP requests, and the primary SHC portal employs strict automation blocks. Building a fragile web-scraper that fails silently is inherently worse than providing clean, human-verifiable web links.
📦 Open Code, Open Data
Every asset fueling this platform is built to be reused. The core structural application logic is published under the flexible MIT License, while all associated geographic, pricing, and administrative datasets are distributed freely under open public frameworks (GODL-India / CC0 / CC BY).
Flat-file data splits (.csv and .json files mapped with clean hierarchical keys, PIN codes, and localized scripts) are readily available in the repository's Releases tab.
- 🌐 Live Map: mchittineni.github.io/india-village-finder
- 📦 Source Code & Data Drops: github.com/mchittineni/india-village-finder
Whether you want to test out the search filters, incorporate regional datasets into your own agritech models, or help us scale up coverage by adding a new state, contributions are highly encouraged. Check out our repository's contributing guide to get started!
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