Welcome to the home of Civic Compass.
Enter your address and instantly discover which civic bodies serve you – from your local ward office to police station, electricity board to water supply. All the information you need, in one place.
We're currently live in Bengaluru and working to bring this to cities across India.
Civic Compass began with a post on Reddit. Someone asked, “What’s the DRO for Koramangala?” This information was required to get an Encumbrance Certificate for an eKhata transfer. At first, it felt like a lazy question; surely this should be easy to search? But to our bewilderment, it wasn’t. Bangalore Urban is split into five District Registrar Offices (DROs) by the Department of Stamps & Registration, but there’s no way to figure out which one applies to you.
To our horror, we also found there was no single place that helped citizens identify the jurisdiction for their area for essential services such as municipal services, electricity, water, and police. So we decided to build one.
Important
We highly recommend opening an issue or reaching out to us so that all efforts are aligned
Civic Compass runs on three things
- a beautiful frontend
- an extensible backend
- and the data that powers it
While we welcome and greatly appreciate contributions across all these areas, the most impactful way to support our mission is by adding more cities and civic bodies to our platform. Every city you add helps thousands of citizens find the civic information they need.
If you already have the data: Great! Head over to our backend documentation to extend the service. We've tried to make the process as straightforward as possible.
If you need to find the data: Start with Open City for existing open datasets. If you can't find what you need there, we've included an RTI template that can help you request the information from government offices.
Feel free to reach out to us if you need help finding or understanding the data. We've been through this process before and can point you in the right direction.