Your village, your panchayat, in one place. Zoloth is a free guide, in English and Hindi, to every gram panchayat, block, tehsil and district. It's built from open government data and written for the people who live there. Who your Pradhan / Mukhiya / Sarpanch is, which villages fall in your panchayat, where the nearest bank or health centre is, how to apply for a certificate or a scheme: Zoloth puts the answer on one clear page.
Why we built Zoloth
Information about local government in India is public, but it's scattered. The LGD code sits on one portal, the panchayat's plan on another, election results on a third and the nearest post office on a fourth. Much of it is only in English and hard to use on a phone, so most people never see it. We think you should be able to understand your own panchayat as easily as you check the weather. Zoloth pulls that public information together, explains it in plain words and links back to the official source every time.
What you can find on Zoloth
- Every gram panchayat: its villages, LGD code, block, tehsil, district and PIN codes, plus the Pradhan / Mukhiya / Sarpanch, secretary and office contact where these are published or verified.
- Your representatives: MLAs and MPs with election results and margins, and the panchayats in each constituency.
- Nearby services: schools, banks with IFSC codes, post offices, health facilities, polling centres and railway stations, with distances.
- Development data: the Panchayat Advancement Index, Census figures, drinking water, sanitation and road connectivity, where official data exists.
- Schemes and certificates: who can apply, what you get, and the exact office or portal to go to.
- Plain-language guides: what a gram panchayat does, the role of the Pradhan / Mukhiya / Sarpanch and ward members, Gram Sabha rights, how to check panchayat funds, MGNREGA job cards, PM Awas Yojana lists and more.
Who runs Zoloth
Zoloth is published by Zoloth as an independent, public-interest project. Zoloth is not a government website. No ministry, department, State Election Commission or panchayat runs it, funds it or is affiliated with it. That also means we can't issue certificates, accept applications or act on complaints. For anything official, use the government portal or office named on the page.
Where the information comes from
Every figure on Zoloth comes from a published public source. The main ones are:
- the Local Government Directory (LGD) of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, for places and codes;
- eGramSwaraj and the Panchayat Advancement Index, also from the Ministry of Panchayati Raj;
- state Panchayati Raj Departments, for panchayat office-bearers where published;
- the Election Commission of India and State Election Commissions, for results and polling centres;
- the Census of India 2011 and the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5);
- India Post, the Reserve Bank of India and UDISE+, for post offices, banks and schools;
- scheme portals such as myScheme, MGNREGA, Jal Jeevan Mission and Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen).
Some official datasets reach us through open-data mirrors run by volunteers, such as DataMeet, and we credit them alongside the original publisher. The full list, with licences, is on our Data sources and methodology page.
How Zoloth is built
We match places by their official LGD codes, so a figure lands on the right panchayat even when the name is spelled differently. Each figure shows its source, the period it covers and a label: reported, calculated by us (such as distances) or an estimate. If a number only exists for the block or district, we say so rather than passing it off as the panchayat's own. Pages are refreshed when sources publish new data. A page with too little real information stays out of search engines until it has more.
Our editorial principles
- Accuracy first. We publish only what a source supports, and we show you the source.
- Plain language. We write for residents, not officials, in English and Hindi.
- Neutrality. We don't take sides in elections or politics, and we describe every representative in the same factual way.
- Privacy by design. We never publish anyone's caste or religion, details of individual scheme beneficiaries, or private contact details.
- Open correction. Anyone can point out a mistake, and we fix verified errors quickly.
How you can help
If you live in a panchayat or work in one, you know things no dataset does. At the end of every page there's an "Add or correct information" form: use it to send the Pradhan / Mukhiya / Sarpanch's name, the panchayat office's contact or a correction. An editor checks every suggestion before it goes live, and values our editors have verified stay in place when data is refreshed. Pradhans / Mukhiyas / Sarpanches and panchayat secretaries are especially welcome to keep their panchayat's page up to date.
Our Corrections and takedown policy explains how this works, or you can contact us. Thanks for helping your neighbours find what they need.