Why This Exists
When Parliament considers a bill, the actual text runs to dozens of pages of legal drafting, spread across the bill itself, committee reports, and ministry notes. If you heard about it on the news and want to know one simple thing — what does this change for me? — there is nowhere to find that answer in plain words, let alone in your own language.
The researchers who do understand these bills, at think tanks and NGOs across India, publish careful analysis. But it is written for other experts, and it rarely reaches the people the law will actually affect.
CitizenView closes that distance. We make the bills readable, surface the research, and give you a direct, informed way to respond.
What You Can Do Here
Read any live bill in plain language
Every bill gets a summary in everyday words: what it changes, who it affects, and where it is in the process. Available in English, Hindi, Bengali, and Tamil. Every summary links to the full official text, so you can always check the source yourself.
Live nowFind campaigns on issues you care about
Policy think tanks and NGOs host their petitions and campaigns on CitizenView, attached to the bills they relate to. You see who is behind each campaign and the research it rests on, then decide whether to support it.
Live nowWrite to the MP who can actually act
For any bill or petition, CitizenView suggests the Members of Parliament best placed to respond, based on their committee seats, ministry, and constituency, and tells you in plain words why each one was chosen. You decide who to write to, and you send the email yourself.
Live and improving with every campaignHow It Works
Pick a bill
Browse what Parliament is currently considering and open anything that matters to you.
Read it in your language
Get the plain-language summary, check the official text if you want to go deeper, and see what researchers are saying.
Write to the right MP
Use the suggested MPs and the explanation of why they were chosen. Edit the message so it is yours, and send it.
Bring others in
Share the bill or campaign so the people it affects can read it and respond too.
How We Keep It Honest
Summaries are drafted with AI, and we say so.
AI lets us cover every bill in four languages, which no small team could do by hand. Every summary links to the bill's full official text so you can verify it yourself, and when we get something wrong, we correct it and say what changed.
Sources first.
Nothing on CitizenView is more than one click from the primary document it describes: the bill, the committee report, the official record.
No party line.
Summaries describe what a bill does, not whether it is good. Campaigns are clearly labelled with the organisation behind them, so you always know who is speaking.
Your data stays minimal.
We collect only what the service needs to work, and we publish how we handle it. We built CitizenView with India's data protection law (the DPDP Act) as a design constraint, not an afterthought.
For Research Organisations
If your organisation analyses legislation or runs public campaigns, CitizenView puts that work in front of the citizens it is meant to serve. Host your petitions on the platform, attached to the bills they concern, with your name and research clearly credited. Supporters reach the right MPs through the same routing every campaign uses.
We are a small platform and we are selective about partners: organisations doing genuine, sourced legislative research. If that is you, we would like to talk.
Who Is Behind This
CitizenView is built by Liz Benny, a civic technologist and policy researcher based in Chennai, with a background in journalism and internet governance. It is an independent, non-partisan project — not affiliated with any political party, government body, or commercial interest. Questions, corrections, and criticism are welcome at the contact page.