Government of India
A comprehensive listing of government departments and their activities. Also, a one-point source for links to different government websites.

Planning Commission of Government of India
Provides information on national and state plans, latest news about development issues, evaluation reports of various programmes, annual reports and statistical data on Indian states.

National Human Rights Commission (NHRC)
The NHRC's website provides news updates on its actions and orders; annual and special reports; format for filing complaints; follow-up information on complaints; important directions and proceedings; action plans and links to useful publications that can be downloaded free.

National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
This section of the Union Ministry of Rural Development’s website provides comprehensive information for all stakeholders in the world’s largest employment and poverty alleviation scheme.

Right to information portal
The Government of India’s Right to Information portal displays the full act, FAQs, quick tips, ministry-wise contact details of central government Public Information Officers (PIOs) and statewise contact details of PIOs (details are not provided for some states).

National Rural Health Mission
The National Rural Health Mission (2005-2012) seeks to improve the availability, access and quality of health care in the country, especially for the benefit of people in rural areas, the poor, women and children, by increasing public expenditure on health, reducing regional imbalances in health infrastructure, pooling resources, optimisation of health manpower, district management of health programmes and community participation.

The Department of Rural Development
The Department of Rural Development implements schemes for generation of self employment and wage employment, provision of housing and minor irrigation assets to rural poor, social assistance to the destitute and rural roads.

The department also provides the support services and other quality inputs such as assistance for strengthening of DRDA Administration, Panchayati raj institutions, training and research, human resource development, development of voluntary action etc. for the proper implementation of the programmes.

Ministry of Human Resource Development
Ministry of Human Resource Development is responsible for the development of human resources. The ministry is divided into two departments: the Department of School Education and Literacy, which deals with primary education and literacy, and the Department of Higher Education, which deals with secondary and post-secondary education.

Ministry of Women and Child Development
The Ministry of Women and Child Development, is the key government agency that focuses on women and child development in India.

Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment is responsible for welfare, social justice, and empowerment of disadvantaged and marginalized sections of society, including scheduled castes and scheduled tribes (SC/ST), other backward classes (OBC), the disabled, and the elderly.

Office of the Registrar General, Census of India
The Indian Census is the largest single source of a variety of statistical information on different characteristics of the people of India. With a history of more than 130 years, this reliable, time tested exercise has been bringing out a veritable wealth of statistics every 10 years, beginning from 1872 when the first census was conducted in India non-synchronously in different parts.

National Family Health Survey
The National Family Health Survey (NFHS) is a large-scale, multi-round survey conducted in a representative sample of households throughout India. Three rounds of the survey have been conducted since the first survey in 1992-93.

The survey provides state and national information for India on fertility, infant and child mortality, the practice of family planning, maternal and child health, reproductive health, nutrition, anaemia, utilization and quality of health and family planning services.

National Commission for Backward Classes
Following the direction of the Supreme Court in the Mandal case judgement, the Government of India enacted the National Commission for Backward Classes Act, 1993 (Act No. 27 of 1993) (Database Searching) which established a National Commission for Backward Classes at the Centre as a permanent body.

National Commission for Minorities
An organisation to safegaurd the constitutional and legal rights of minorities.