Eleven Indian states require licensing of every lift installation. Only one mandates that the lift keep running through a power cut. India ranks second globally for elevator-related accidents. This is the reference we wish lawmakers and journalists already had.
If you have twenty minutes, go in this order. Each page cites its primary sources and lists what we have not yet been able to verify.
In 2020 Haryana became the first Indian state to require uninterrupted lift backup for buildings above 15 metres. What the act says, what it does not, and what it would look like applied nationally.
A side-by-side table of every Indian state lift act we have sourced — what year it was passed, what backup requirement it imposes (or doesn't), and which enforcement body owns it. Currently covers 11 states.
Every fatal or serious lift incident we have been able to source from published news. Currently logging 6 entries from 2023 onwards. Help us add more.
The BIS standards, the National Building Code, and how state lift acts incorporate both. Written for non-engineers who need to make policy or read it intelligently.
Across this section we keep flagging data that is not public. We wrote the Right to Information applications. Anyone in India can file them for ₹10. Together we build the dataset India's lift-safety regime currently lacks.
Open the RTI templates →Unlike the four pages above — which present data and let readers conclude — our position piece argues for a specific outcome: a central law requiring uninterrupted lift backup in buildings above a defined height, with the gaps in the Haryana model closed. Disclosed conflicts and counter-arguments on the same page.