Status: activeType: 🔬 researchCountry: India Website: prsindia.org

Status	active
Type	🔬 research
Country	India
Website	prsindia.org
Contact	prsindia@prsindia.org (011) 2323 4801
Concepts	Representative Democracy Radical Transparency Accountability Sink Parliamentary Monitoring
Last activity	2026-07-19 dod Website live with July 2026 content; Monsoon session tracking, active blog and bill commentary.

PRS Legislative Research

PRS Legislative Research was founded in September 2005 and is housed within the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi. It provides non-partisan research support to Members of Parliament and state legislators, and makes India's legislative process more accessible to citizens through open tracking tools.

What they do

• Bills Track — real-time tracking of legislation introduced and pending in Parliament
• Legislative Briefs — 4–6 page summaries of major bills covering their main provisions and key policy questions
• MP Track — citizen tool to monitor individual MPs' attendance, questions, debates, and private member bills
• Session End Summaries — reports on each parliamentary session listing bills passed, introduced, and pending
• Monthly Policy Reviews — summaries of major policy developments across sectors

Links

• Website: prsindia.org

See also

• Representative Democracy
• Radical Transparency
• Accountability Sink

History

• 2005-01-01 Founded to track parliamentary activity and strengthen legislative debate in IndiaFounding of the organisation
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  was established in September 2005 as an independent research institute

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• 2013-01-01 Won NDTV's Indian of the Year Award in the Public Service category, shared with the Association for Democratic ReformsNational recognition shared with a peer accountability organisation
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  NDTV’s Indian of the Year Award in the Public Service category for the year 2013.

  Also won the Marico Innovation Foundation's Social Innovation Award (2010) and was named Business Standard's Social Entrepreneur of the Year (2019), per the same page's "Recognition" section.

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