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circulars indexed
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state covered
What's inside the archive
Four kinds of documents that show up in school office inboxes — all indexed, all searchable, all downloadable.
Circulars
Day-to-day directives from your state education department — admissions, fees, attendance norms, exam protocols.
Gazettes
3+Official gazette notifications: fee committee orders, board recognition decisions, regulatory amendments.
Office orders
Internal departmental orders affecting accreditation, transfers, teacher appointments, and audits.
Court orders
High-court and tribunal rulings on fee regulation, RTE compliance, admissions disputes, recognition cases.
How it works
Three things you can do from day one.
Sign up free
No card, no commitment. One shared login per institution covers your whole office.
Search across years
Full-text across every PDF we have. Even scans — every document is OCR-processed on upload. Kannada + English for Karnataka, English for the rest.
Save & be notified
Save searches; we flag new matches in your dashboard the moment fresh circulars land. Bookmarks stay with your institution forever.
Independent & in your control
Not a govt website. Hosted in India, no analytics SDKs, no data sold. PDFs are mirrored — your access never depends on a department portal staying up.
Years of back-coverage
Old circulars routinely vanish from .nic.in sites within a year. The order your office cited in 2019 is still here in 2026 — searchable and downloadable.
Bilingual OCR
Kannada + English for Karnataka circulars (most state docs mix both). English elsewhere. More state languages roll out as we expand.
Frequently asked
The things school admins actually ask us.
Is this an official government website?
No. CircularHub is an independent service that aggregates publicly available education department documents — circulars, notifications, gazettes, and court orders — into one searchable archive. Originals come from official department portals, gazette publications, and court websites.
Do I need to pay to sign up?
No. Sign-up is free, browsing the archive is free, search is free, snippets and metadata are free. There are no subscriptions, no monthly fees, no renewals.
Can I see what's in a circular before downloading?
Yes — every search result shows the title, reference number, year, department, and a text snippet from the body. The full OCR-extracted body text is also visible after sign-in. Only the actual PDF file is gated.
Why not just check the department site directly?
Old circulars are routinely removed when a department reorganises its website or migrates to a new domain. Court orders end up on lok-adalat or e-courts portals that are hard to search. We keep everything indexed and downloadable — the document you cited five years ago is still here.
Do you cover court orders too?
Yes — high-court and tribunal orders that affect education institutions: fee regulation, admissions, RTE compliance, teacher recruitment, recognition disputes. We add new orders as they're published.
What if a document I need isn't here?
Use the Request feature inside your account — admin reviews and tracks it down, usually within a working day. Or upload your own copy via Contribute and we'll re-publish it cleanly so every institution gets access.
How is payment handled?
Razorpay handles every transaction — UPI, card, or netbanking. Per-download payments activate within seconds via webhook. We don't store any card details.
Can multiple staff at one school use it?
Yes — one shared login per institution covers all your office staff. Save searches, bookmark frequently-cited orders, share links internally. Per-PDF purchases are owned by the institution, not the individual.
What languages do you OCR?
English everywhere, plus Kannada for Karnataka-state PDFs (most Karnataka government circulars mix Kannada body text with English forms and numbers). More state languages roll out as we expand coverage.
Where is our data stored?
PDFs in Cloudflare R2 (Asia-Pacific). Application data in MongoDB Atlas, Mumbai region. No analytics trackers, no data sold, no third-party advertising. Backups run nightly to a separate write-only bucket.