About Us

We utilise open data to analyse a range of issues with the broader objective of fostering better governance, transparency and accountability in the Indian government. Founded in late 2011 by Govindraj Ethiraj, a television and print journalist and former Founder Editor-in-Chief of Bloomberg TV India, HealthCheck is rapidly growing to become an ‘agency of record’ when it comes to data and facts on the Indian economy, particularly in areas such as education and healthcare as well as data on the states of India.

Given the general nature of hard data, not just in India but worldwide, we feel there is a need and an opportunity to focus on critical data that can help the country at large take objective views on important policy issues and foster data-led discussion and analysis. We do believe this will become more important in coming years as citizens become more actively involved in the governance process. A twin objective is also to make the use of data exciting and a first recourse for young India–rather than opinion–by utilising various social media sources to reach this population.

HealthCheck is a non-profit and a project of The Spending & Policy Research Foundation located in Lower Parel in Mumbai, and registered as a Charitable Trust with the Charity Commissioner, Mumbai.