A quick case study on PRS Legislative Research's Social innovation. PRS won an Innovation for India award at the Marico Innovation's Foundations award night.

1. PRS Legislative Research

2. PRS Legislative Research Do you know…. Each US Congressman gets a government funded staff of 20+ people for research, an Indian MP gets Rs. 14,000 for one PA and one researcher? An Indian MP represents 2 million people on average whereas a US Congressman represents one third that number on average? US Congressmen are supported by a Congressional Research Service(CRS), Indian MP’s have no institutional support. MP’s are required to create laws and policies that affect 1.2 billion people with limited or no research data.

4. PRS produces easy to understand 4-6 pages long Legislative Brief on a range of bills. These Briefs are sent to all MP’s in both houses of Parliament and 1200 NGOs and 500 top companies of the country.

5. Systematically tracks all aspects related to the functioning of Parliament

6. Training over 1000 journalists across India