A public research preview mapping financial inclusion across India — district by district.
Project FINER (Financial Inclusion in the North East Region) started as an effort to make sense of the dense quarterly PDF booklets published by State Level Bankers' Committees (SLBCs) — the only source of district-level banking data in India.
What began with eight North Eastern states now publishes source-derived collections for 31 states and Union Territories. Coverage, schemas and comparability vary by source; the release manifest records exactly what each download contains.
India's financial inclusion data is scattered across dozens of agencies — RBI, NABARD, NPCI, UIDAI, individual state SLBCs — each publishing in different formats, at different granularities, on different schedules. Most of it is locked in PDFs.
Researchers, policymakers, and journalists who need district-level answers — which districts have the lowest credit-deposit ratios? where is KCC penetration weakest? how has Jan Dhan enrollment changed over time? — face weeks of manual data extraction before analysis can even begin.
We parse SLBC publications across inconsistent formats and retain the resulting source-derived files as raw/experimental material. Narrow products move to a standardized contract only when their identities, units and limitations are explicit.
Selected district indicators are presented on an interactive map. The release also contains 2,75,631 capital-market registry records, which are currently location-level raw data rather than certified district measures.
Files are publicly downloadable without registration. Public availability does not establish reuse permission, and each distribution carries an explicit quality tier, source ID and rights-review status.
Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura
Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal
NCT of Delhi, Goa, Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh
Project FINER aggregates data from many sources. Several have specific citation requirements; we list them below in the form recommended by the original publishers. If you reuse any of these data, please cite the original sources rather than (or in addition to) Project FINER.
The following datasets are sourced from the Socioeconomic High-resolution Rural-Urban Geographic Platform (SHRUG) v2.1, maintained by Development Data Lab (DDL). All SHRUG datasets are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Per DDL: "Neither DDL nor the contributors of data to DDL shall be held liable for any improper or incorrect use or application of the data provided."
Project FINER's code and data-processing history are publicly inspectable on GitHub. No code licence or blanket data licence is currently granted; consult the rights matrix, methodology and repository licence notice before reuse.
Have questions, corrections, or want to collaborate? Email us at mail@projectfiner.com or open an issue on GitHub.