About these tools

The Centre for Effective Governance of Indian States works with state governments to strengthen state capacity. A good deal of that work produces software — something an officer can open and use, rather than a report about what software might help. This is where that software lives.

Who these are for

Officials in state and central government departments, and the people who work alongside them. The tools assume you know your own domain and are short of time, which is why none of them ask you to learn a new vocabulary before they become useful.

Why there is an account

Signing in is free and immediate — there is nothing to approve and no one to wait for. We ask for a name, an email address and where you work for one reason: so CEGIS knows which departments the tools are actually reaching, and can keep building the ones that are used.

A few tools handle material sensitive enough that they review access requests before opening up. Those say so on their own page, and on the dashboard, before you spend any time on them.

What these tools will not do

None of them make decisions. They read, compare, retrieve and flag, and every finding points back at the source it came from so you can check it rather than take it on trust. Where a tool uses a language model, it says so on its page, and the output is something to verify — not an answer to act on unread.

What we record

Which tools get opened, by how many people, and from which organisations. That is the whole of it, and it is what the privacy policy describes in full. Work you do inside a tool belongs to that tool and its own rules; this portal does not read it.