Hi Suyash — I found two concrete improvements for the directory: 1. The Chhattisgarh and Kerala 1076 CM Helpline entries both link to /helplines/1076, which opens the Uttar Pradesh/Jansunwai guide. Their official source links already point to the right states: Chhattisgarh (https://cmhelpline.cg.gov.in/Home/ContactUs) and Kerala (https://cmo.kerala.gov.in/help.php). Until there are separate guides, linking those service names directly to their own official source would prevent the cross-state jump.
2. Chhattisgarh's hours are blank in the directory, but its contact page (https://cmhelpline.cg.gov.in/Home/ContactUs) now explicitly says the portal and helpline are active 24/7. That gives you a source-backed hours update. For the first issue, the durable fix is to match guides using state + service + number, not the number alone. That also keeps different services sharing a short code from inheriting each other's instructions. Checked on 27 September. These are page/source checks, not test calls. Happy to help turn the guide-matching check into a small regression test if useful. — Bryan, CivicDataForge On Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 5:52:31 PM UTC-4 suyash raj wrote: > Hello DataMeet, > > I have put together a dataset of Indian government helpline numbers and I > would like the group to tear it apart before I promote it anywhere. > > What it is. 143 helpline numbers run by central and state government > bodies — emergency, health, women and child, senior citizens, labour, cyber > crime, consumer, disaster. One row per helpline. > > Fields. name, number, category, jurisdiction (national or the state), > languages, hours, sourceUrl, dateVerified. > > How each row was verified. Every number carries a sourceUrl pointing at > the page on a .gov.in or .nic.in domain where that number is published by > the body that runs it, plus the dateVerified on which that page was read. > No number came from a news article, an aggregator, or another list. Where a > source page gave a number that contradicted another government page, the > row was dropped rather than guessed at. That is the whole method — it is > manual, and it means the dataset is only as fresh as its dateVerified > column. > > Licence. CC BY 4.0. > > Where. > Browsable: https://aisewak.com/helplines > JSON: https://aisewak.com/helplines/helplines.json > > What I would like from this group. Corrections. Numbers that have changed, > state helplines I have missed, and in particular any row whose sourceUrl no > longer resolves or no longer shows that number. Reply on this thread or > mail me and I will fix the row and bump its dateVerified. > > Disclosure: I run AiSewak, which builds voice agents for Indian languages, > and the dataset came out of that work. It is published under CC BY 4.0 with > no strings — use it, fork it, mirror it. > > Suyash Raj > https://x.com/suyash_raj > -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/b96db874-60be-4e4c-87f9-85bcfa9b4be3n%40googlegroups.com.
