OpenSansad: 86,500+ Indian Lok Sabha Parliamentary Q&A Records

Encompassing 86,500+ parliamentary question-and-answer records from India's Lok Sabha, spanning the 17th and 18th sessions. Produced by OpenSansad and updated through March 2026, it provides full-text extraction for recent sessions and metadata for historical records. The collection covers legislative inquiries from June 2019 to February 2026 in both English and Hindi.

Use Cases

• Question answering systems using the question and answer text fields from the 18th Lok Sabha
• Summarization of government proceedings based on parliamentary inquiry text
• Text classification of legislative topics using metadata and question content

Strengths

• 86,500+ total parliamentary records
• Full text extraction for 25,974 questions from the 18th Lok Sabha
• Bilingual support for English and Hindi text
• CC BY 4.0 open license

Limitations

• Incomplete text for 17th Lok Sabha records which require external PDF processing
• Geographic bias limited strictly to the lower house of the Indian Parliament

Provenance

Source

India's Lok Sabha (Parliament) via OpenSansad

Collection Method

Extracted from official parliamentary records and digital PDF documents

Time Range

2019-06-17 to 2026-02-28

Freshness

Highly current, with the most recent records dated February 2026 and the last update in March 2026.

Geography

India