Cities shape our everyday lives and understanding how they’re funded, how they spend and how they plan for the future is important. Financial data of cities is often hard to find, harder to interpret and rarely presented in ways that invite public engagement and discourse.
cityfinance.in was created to change that.
As India’s national open platform for urban financial transparency, the CityFinance platform brings together key financial information from cities across the country. It helps users explore annual financial statements & budgets and compare financial performance – all in one place. Whether you’re a city official, a researcher, a journalist or simply curious about how cities work, the platform offers tools to make urban finance more visible and understandable.
This blog will evolve alongside the platform. As more financial data and features become available, we’ll surface the stories behind the numbers that can reveal about city’s urban priorities, pressures and possibilities. Financial transparency isn’t just about accountability—it’s about enabling informed civic participation and evidence-based policymaking.
Over time, this space will offer a record of how CityFinance platform grows – not just as a tool, but as part of a broader shift toward clarity, usability and fiscal reform in city governance.
– From all of us at City Finance