An independent open-data publication.
We turn India’s official public data into clear, sourced, district-level intelligence that anyone can read, use, and cite.
India publishes an enormous amount of data about its own economy, but most of it arrives as raw counts — totals on a portal, with no sense of what they mean. We started DataRankIndia to close that gap: to take numbers that are already public and rank them into reads that actually answer a question.
Our first body of work covers the MSME economy. From the official Udyam registry we compute two measures for every district in the country — an Industrial Density Index, which shows how concentrated a district is in manufacturing, and an Enterprise Mix score, which shows how much of its base has grown beyond micro-enterprises. Together they turn 4.72 crore registrations into a map of where India actually makes things.
We are a team of students from SRMIST KTR, building this in the open. We work under one publication voice rather than personal bylines, because the point is the data and the method, not the author.
Three rules we hold ourselves to.
Sourced
Every figure comes from official government open data on data.gov.in — primarily the Udyam registration dataset. Nothing is scraped from private lists.
Reconciled
We check our totals back to the source before anything is published, so district numbers add up to the national figure.
Transparent
The method is shown, not hidden. Each dataset ships with a data dictionary so you can check the work yourself.
What we don’t do
We never invent or estimate a number to fill a gap. If a figure is not in the official data, it does not go on the page — we would rather show less than show something we can’t source. Where a measure needs data we don’t yet have, we say so and mark it as coming with the next release.