smartduketech/indian-government-schemes-2025

Indian Government Schemes Dataset 2026

Dataset Description

The most comprehensive structured dataset of Indian central and state government schemes — 4,693 schemes across all ministries and states, with machine-readable eligibility fields.

Maintained by SmartDuke Technologies · Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

This dataset powers SchemeFit — India's government scheme finder for citizens and businesses.

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What Makes This Different

Most existing Indian scheme datasets contain raw text paragraphs with no structure. This dataset includes parsed eligibility fields enabling programmatic matching:

• ✅ Gender eligibility (all, male, female)
• ✅ Caste category (SC, ST, OBC, General)
• ✅ Annual income limits (in rupees)
• ✅ Rural/urban residence requirements
• ✅ State-specific eligibility (array)
• ✅ BPL (Below Poverty Line) flag
• ✅ Disability flag
• ✅ Age min/max

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Dataset Stats

Field	Value
Total schemes	4,693
Female-only schemes	448
BPL schemes	157
Tamil Nadu specific	232
Central govt schemes	~3,800
State schemes	~900
Last updated	July 2026

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Dataset Fields

Column	Type	Description
slug	string	Unique URL identifier
name	string	Scheme name in English
description	string	Brief description
ministry	string	Nodal ministry
department	string	Nodal department
state	string	Central or state name
category	string	Scheme category tags
benefits	string	What the beneficiary receives
eligibility_text	string	Raw eligibility paragraph
application_process	string	How to apply
documents_required	string	Documents needed
apply_url	string	Direct application link
official_url	string	myscheme.gov.in URL
eligibility_age_min	integer	Minimum age (null = no limit)
eligibility_age_max	integer	Maximum age (null = no limit)
eligibility_gender	string	all, male, or female
eligibility_caste	list	["SC","ST","OBC","General"]
eligibility_income_max	integer	Annual income limit in ₹
eligibility_residence	string	rural, urban, or both
eligibility_state	list	Eligible states or ["All"]
eligibility_disability	boolean	Requires disability status
eligibility_bpl	boolean	Requires BPL status
scraped_at	timestamp	When data was collected

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Use Cases

• Eligibility matching engines — query by user profile to return matching schemes
• Legal aid and welfare chatbots — power RAG systems with structured scheme data
• Research — analyse welfare scheme coverage, gaps, and distribution across India
• LLM fine-tuning — train models on Indian government domain knowledge
• GovTech applications — build citizen-facing tools for scheme discovery

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Example Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("smartduketech/indian-government-schemes-2025")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()

# Find all women-only schemes
women_schemes = df[df["eligibility_gender"] == "female"]
print(f"Women-only schemes: {len(women_schemes)}")

# Find schemes for SC/ST with income limit
sc_st = df[df["eligibility_caste"].apply(
    lambda x: any(c in str(x) for c in ["SC", "ST"]) if x else False
)]
print(f"SC/ST schemes: {len(sc_st)}")

# Find Tamil Nadu specific schemes
tn_schemes = df[df["eligibility_state"].apply(
    lambda x: "Tamil Nadu" in str(x) if x else False
)]
print(f"Tamil Nadu schemes: {len(tn_schemes)}")

# Simple eligibility match function
def match_schemes(df, gender="all", state="Tamil Nadu", residence="urban", income=100000):
    matched = df[
        (df["eligibility_gender"].isin([gender, "all"]) | df["eligibility_gender"].isna()) &
        (df["eligibility_income_max"].isna() | (df["eligibility_income_max"] >= income)) &
        (df["eligibility_residence"].isin([residence, "both"]) | df["eligibility_residence"].isna())
    ]
    return matched

results = match_schemes(df, gender="female", state="Tamil Nadu")
print(f"Matched schemes: {len(results)}")

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Data Source

• Original source: myscheme.gov.in — Government of India portal maintained by Digital India Corporation under MeitY
• Structured parsing: SmartDuke Technologies using rule-based NLP pipeline
• Collection date: July 2026

⚠️ Always verify scheme details on the official portal before applying. Scheme eligibility and benefits may change. Apply URLs should be confirmed at myscheme.gov.in.

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Maintained By

SmartDuke Technologies Web development and AI agency · Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

This dataset powers SchemeFit — India's government scheme finder for citizens and businesses.

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License

CC BY 4.0 — Free to use with attribution.

Please cite: SmartDuke Technologies · schemefit.com

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Citation

@dataset{smartduketech2026schemes,
  author    = {SmartDuke Technologies},
  title     = {Indian Government Schemes Dataset 2026},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/smartduketech/indian-government-schemes-2025},
  note      = {Powers SchemeFit (schemefit.com). Original data from myscheme.gov.in}
}