30 days. 30 government websites.
Every day for a month, I'm rebuilding one Indian government website as a working concept: the task you came for on the first screen, plain language, every page in Indian languages, and one design system holding them together.
Three at once: trains, tax and your PF.
Day 03 · IRCTCBook, follow the waitlist, cancel.
Search on a live rail map, pick a berth and get a ticket. Watch a PNR move from WL 34 to confirmed, and see what you get back before you cancel.
Open IRCTC →
Day 04 · Income TaxYour tax, worked out in a sentence.
Type your income and watch the slabs fill. Check where each pre-filled figure came from, follow a refund, and look up what a notice means.
Open Income Tax →
Day 05 · EPFOHow much is in your PF, and when can you take it?
See your passbook and where it grows. Pick what's happening in your life to get the withdrawal rule, and move an old job's PF across.
Open EPFO →
The 30
One a day. The next ones are already being built.
What every site gets
The task first
The thing you came to do is on the first screen: check, apply, track or pay. No pop-ups and no banners on the way in.
Every language is a first language
One type family across Indian scripts, built for all 22 scheduled languages, including Urdu read right to left.
One system, thirty sites
The same strip, controls and patterns everywhere, so learning one government site teaches you the next.
Concepts by Aakar Labs. Not affiliated with the Government of India or any department shown. Results inside the sites are samples, and nothing you type is sent anywhere.