About Margadarshini

Margadarshini guides you, step by step, through tasks in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh: getting a certificate or a government service, applying for a welfare scheme, an everyday task such as a bank complaint, or what to do in an emergency or after a death in the family.

What to know before using a guide

AI helps draft the guides from official sources, and a person approves each guide for publication. Approval for publication does not necessarily mean every fact has been checked against its source. A guide published without that check is labelled as not yet checked. Read its review status before relying on it.

Known uncertainties are marked "not confirmed". Other errors, missing details or outdated information may remain. A source link lets you inspect the evidence; it does not by itself prove that the guide interpreted it correctly. Confirm important requirements, fees and deadlines with the official service before applying or paying.

How Margadarshini helps

• Guidance for your state: Telangana and Andhra Pradesh have separate guides. Check that you have selected the state you need.
• Steps for your situation: your answers determine which documents and steps appear. The same guide version and answers follow the same rules. A revised guide or different answers may show different steps.
• Source links: each step links to the sources cited for it, so you can read them yourself.
• Progress on your device: tick off documents, mark steps done and return to a task later. On the website, you can print a checklist for the office. Clearing browser or app data can remove saved progress.
• Telugu and English: read in either language or use Listen when a suitable voice is available on your device.

Using Margadarshini without internet

Guides already saved on your device can be read offline. On the website, open or save the guides you need while connected, then check that they are available offline before relying on them. External websites, online applications and guide updates need internet. Listening offline depends on an installed voice for the chosen language.

Margadarshini is not a government service

• Margadarshini takes no applications, documents or money, and never asks for your Aadhaar number or an OTP.
• It only tells you what to do, where, with which documents, and what it should cost. You apply yourself, at the office, MeeSeva or the official website the guide names.
• Never pay anyone who offers to "speed it up" for more than the official fee.

Sources and review

• Our source policy requires official material: government orders, citizen charters, laws, rules and department websites. For services run by banks, insurers or other providers, their own published information and the relevant regulator's information also count.
• Guides distinguish publication approval from a recorded fact-by-fact check. An approval date alone is not a verification date. Even a checked guide can contain errors or become outdated.
• Guides have a scheduled re-check interval. This is a target for review, not a promise that a new check has happened by that date. Check the guide's review status and current official information.
• We use an automated tool to compare saved copies of source pages and documents when it runs. It reports changes and fetch failures for manual review. It cannot access every source, determine whether a change affects a rule, or automatically find every new order. A successful download is not a factual check, and the report does not automatically correct a guide.
• Guides are written in Open Telugu's own words with AI assistance, including the Telugu wording. Wording and translation mistakes may remain. If something is wrong or unclear, consult the linked source and use the site's contact or problem-reporting option to tell us.

Contributors

People who compare a guide with what really happens at the office and tell us where it differs, and people who read the Telugu and tell us where it does not sound right, help every reader after them. Those who agree to be named are listed here. A name here is thanks for that help; it does not mean the person checked or approved a guide.

No names yet. To help, write to us through the contact link at the foot of this page.

Open Telugu

Margadarshini is part of Open Telugu. Its code is open source (GPL-3.0-or-later) and its guides are open (CC BY 4.0). Government material keeps its own terms.