soodoku/pai

Panchayat Advancement Index — Gram Panchayat scores

Analysis-ready scores from the Government of India's Panchayat Advancement Index for every Gram Panchayat (GP) in the official hierarchy, for both published vintages: PAI 1.0 (2022-2023) and PAI 2.0 (2023-2024). The overall PAI score and nine theme scores are on the portal's 0–100 scale.

Code, contracts, and the scraper that rebuilds everything: https://github.com/in-rolls/pai.

Files

path	what it is
release/pai_gp.parquet	one row per hierarchy GP × vintage, key (year, gp_code); score_available marks GPs the portal never scored (scores null, never zero)
release/MANIFEST.json	version, schema, row counts, byte sizes, SHA-256 checksums
docs/pai_indicators.csv	the indicator framework behind each theme score: one row per version, theme and indicator (516 PAI 1.0 rows, 150 PAI 2.0), with numerator, denominator and kind (ratio, number or yes/no check), fetched from the portal's indicator browser
archives/blocks_<year>.tar.zst	per-block typed Parquet cache — rebuilds the release table without a browser
archives/html_<year>.tar.zst	rendered page captures — the raw source evidence

Coverage

vintage	states with scores	districts	blocks with data	scored GPs	score rows
2022-2023	29 / 34	753	6,318	216,256	2,162,560
2023-2024	33 / 34	741	6,766	259,867	2,598,670

PAI 2.0 totals equal the Ministry's final state table (PIB release PRID 2294288): 259,867 scored GPs across 33 States/UTs, and PAI 1.0 totals the baseline table (PIB release PRID 2120320): 216,285 GPs across 29 States/UTs, less 29 Assam GPs the portal does not display. West Bengal has no scores in either vintage; Goa and Meghalaya score a subset of their hierarchy. PAI 1.0 and PAI 2.0 use different indicator systems and are separate cross-sectional measures, not a panel on an invariant scale.

Columns

Column	Type	Meaning and universe	Missing values	Provenance
year	string	PAI fiscal-year vintage	none allowed	portal year selector
state, district, block	string	Hierarchy labels for the GP in that vintage	none allowed	PAI hierarchy handlers
state_value, district_value, block_value	string	Portal/LGD hierarchy identifiers	none allowed	PAI hierarchy handlers
gp_name	string	GP-handler name after removing its checked LGD-code suffix	none allowed	PAI GP handler
gp_code	string	LGD Gram Panchayat code; part of the release key	none allowed	PAI GP handler
hierarchy_source_url	string	Exact GP-handler request URL	none allowed	PAI GP handler
hierarchy_retrieved_utc	string	UTC retrieval timestamp	none allowed	collection provenance
hierarchy_source_sha256	string	SHA-256 of the retained raw GP-handler response	none allowed	collection provenance
score_available	boolean	Whether the portal publishes ten PAI score rows	none allowed	exact score-to-universe join
scorecard_url	string	Official PAI scorecard path	null when score_available is false	PAI score table
overall_pai_score_score	float64	Overall PAI score on the portal's 0–100 scale	null when unscored	PAI score table
t1_poverty_free_and_enhanced_livelihoods_panchayat_score	float64	Theme 1 score on the portal's 0–100 scale	null when unscored	PAI score table
t2_healthy_panchayat_score	float64	Theme 2 score on the portal's 0–100 scale	null when unscored; plus 38 reviewed PAI 1.0 source blanks	PAI score table and archived HTML evidence
t3_child_friendly_panchayat_score	float64	Theme 3 score on the portal's 0–100 scale	null when unscored	PAI score table
t4_water_sufficient_panchayat_score	float64	Theme 4 score on the portal's 0–100 scale	null when unscored	PAI score table
t5_clean_and_green_panchayat_score	float64	Theme 5 score on the portal's 0–100 scale	null when unscored	PAI score table
t6_self_sufficient_infrastructure_in_panchayat_score	float64	Theme 6 score on the portal's 0–100 scale	null when unscored	PAI score table
t7_socially_just_and_socially_secured_panchayat_score	float64	Theme 7 score on the portal's 0–100 scale	null when unscored	PAI score table
t8_panchayat_with_good_governance_score	float64	Theme 8 score on the portal's 0–100 scale	null when unscored	PAI score table
t9_women_friendly_panchayat_score	float64	Theme 9 score on the portal's 0–100 scale	null when unscored	PAI score table

Provenance

Every block was retrieved twice in independent postbacks and accepted only when both retrievals agreed and their GP-code set matched the portal's official GP handler for that block (exactly, or as a documented subset in partially scored states). Rendered HTML for every page is in the html_<year> archive; the per-block Parquet cache in blocks_<year> is what scripts/pai_rebuild_index.py and scripts/build_data_package.py consume.

pip install huggingface_hub
hf download soodoku/pai release/pai_gp.parquet --repo-type dataset

import pyarrow.parquet as pq
gps = pq.read_table("pai_gp.parquet")
scores = gps.filter(gps["score_available"])