Public reports

Analyses of Indian education built entirely from public data: NIRF's institute disclosures, the NAAC accreditation register, AISHE and AICTE capacity, NMC seat counts, and the government's Periodic Labour Force Survey. None of them use Avanti student data.

Each is written in the repo that holds the analysis behind it, alongside the SQL that produced every figure and a checker that fails the build when a published number stops matching its source. Where an inference was tempting but unsupported, the write-up says so rather than leaving it out.

• What we know about young Indians' job prospects

  What NIRF, PLFS and NAAC say when read against each other about young Indians' job prospects, including the one inference the data does not support.

• What Indian education is worth: the findings

  Eight things the data says about what Indian education is worth, each linked to the analysis behind it.

• Technical seats: how many India approves, and how many go empty

  How many technical seats India approves each year, how many students enrol against them, and how many go empty.

• What an Indian degree is actually worth

  Where NIRF's placement and salary claims can be reconciled against PLFS survey data on the same footing, and where they cannot.

• What every level of Indian education is worth

  Fourteen qualifications from below middle school to a medical postgraduate: how many people hold each, who reaches formal work, and what job they do.

• What NAAC accreditation says about Indian higher education

  The grade distribution across 7,566 accredited colleges, and the lapsed accreditations that quietly flatter it.

• What NIRF says about itself, by discipline

  What NIRF's own institute disclosures say about placement and pay across eight disciplines, and how little of each field the ranking actually sees.