About us

Elaka360’s aim is simple: that people in Bangladesh can find reliable information about their own area — administrative areas, institutions, services and emergency numbers — in one place, in Bangla, and with sources.

We believe it matters to show the source next to the information. So every published piece of information says where it was taken from, and we do not publish information that has not yet been checked.

Elaka360 is an independent initiative. It is not part of the Government of Bangladesh or any government agency, and no government agency has endorsed it.

Every piece of information has an evidence level. On the site they are labelled like this:

• Officially verifiedFrom a primary government source (gazette, LGD, BBS, or a government register or portal).
• Secondary sourceFrom a reliable secondary source (e.g. Wikipedia, newspapers, census compilations); not officially verified.
• Community dataFrom a community dataset or a user submission; not yet verified.
• Not verifiedNot yet checked against any source.

Only Officially verified or Secondary source information whose source is named is shown as “Sourced”. Community data and not-yet-verified information are shown too, but every such page carries a “Not verified” warning.

So far, all sourced information comes from secondary sources — such as Wikipedia, the citypopulation.de compilation of the BBS Census 2022, and newspapers. No information has been officially verified yet.

The administrative levels below the district (upazilas, unions) come from a community dataset. Until they have been checked against the official list, most of them are shown as “Not verified”.

Elaka360 is currently in the Rajshahi pilot phase: information on institutions and places is for now limited to a few places in Rajshahi District.