Dataset · Governance
Number of grama panchayats, municipalities and municipal corporations in each district of Kerala, with the Haritha Karma Sena (HKS, the local governments' door-to-door waste collection groups run with Suchitwa Mission and Kudumbashree) formed and functioning in them, as printed in the Haritha Karma Sena appendix of the Kerala Economic Review (editions 2019 and 2021-2025) and in the Kerala Development Report 2021 and 2026. Each row is one district (or the Kerala total), publication and measure; the table, page and file of each edition are listed under Source documents. The HKS columns change meaning between editions: in 2019, 2021 and 2022 they count local governments (units) where HKS was formed, required or functioning; from the 2023 edition they count HKS members (required and functioning). Kerala has 941 grama panchayats, 87 municipalities and 6 corporations in every edition; 30,304 HKS members were functioning in grama panchayats in the 2024 and 2025 editions and the KDR 2026. Use it for the count of local governments by district and, with care, for HKS coverage.
The first 5 of 840 rows
| period | period_type | geo_level | geo_code | geo_name | indicator | measure | region | ref_period | ref_period_type | is_partial_period | value | unit | qa_flag | notes | district_as_per_source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | year | state | 32 | Kerala | local_government_units | grama_panchayats | State | 2019 | year | False | 941.0 | number | Total | ||
| 2019 | year | state | 32 | Kerala | local_government_units | hks_corp_formed | State | 2019 | year | False | 6.0 | number | Total | ||
| 2019 | year | state | 32 | Kerala | local_government_units | hks_corp_functioning | State | 2019 | year | False | 6.0 | number | Total | ||
| 2019 | year | state | 32 | Kerala | local_government_units | hks_gp_formed | State | 2019 | year | False | 941.0 | number | Total | ||
| 2019 | year | state | 32 | Kerala | local_government_units | hks_gp_functioning | State | 2019 | year | False | 627.0 | number | Total |
16 columns, in file order.
periodperiod_typegeo_levelgeo_codegeo_nameindicatormeasureregionref_periodref_period_typeis_partial_periodvalueunitqa_flagnotesdistrict_as_per_sourcePlease cite this dataset when you use it:
Policy and Research Initiative (2026). District-wise local governments and Haritha Karma Sena in Kerala, 2019-2025 [Dataset]. PRI Data Repository. /data/local-government-units-kerala