Welcome to GovCheck!! This is a site where you can find information about Indian Members of Parliment (Lok and Rajya Sabhas). The data, as it stands now, allows you to view MP's attendance and debate records, list of states in the Union, list of parties that have at-least one representative in either of the Houses as well as a list of Contituencies within the country, and much more. All of this data is accumulated from three sites (as of now) - the Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and the Election Comission of India sites .
This is the data dispersal part. The site also features ways for people to interact with each other and possibly with their representatives. This can be done (for now) using the Petitions feature on the site, which allows users to create petitions and target them to specific MP's, States, Parties, Constituencies or any specify a custom tag to describe the nature of their petition. Petitioners can then invite their friends and family to go sign said petition. The more signatures a petition has, the more weight it will carry - while will hopefully force officials to take notice.
However, as insinuated above, there is lot's more to come. I will outline in future posts what my vision for the site is, but, for now, suffice it to say that the data sources will grow vastly as will the interaction features.
I hope you enjoy using this service, and would love to hear from you with any feedback, comments or questions you might have.
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