DELHI (11 DISTRICTS) + JAMMU DISTRICT — READY-TO-USE SHAPEFILES
Prepared by CivicDataForge, 27 August 2026, in response to the DataMeet request.

CONTENTS
delhi-11-districts.zip — Central, East, New Delhi, North, North East,
North West, Shahdara, South, South East, South West, West.
jammu-district.zip — Jammu district only (not the whole Jammu division).

HOW TO OPEN
1. Extract the relevant ZIP into a folder.
2. Keep .shp, .shx, .dbf, .prj and .cpg together with matching base names.
3. Open the .shp in QGIS or another shapefile reader.
4. Use the 'district' attribute for joining district names. The original
   'dtcode', 'stcode', 'state_name' and source-agency fields are preserved.

PROJECTION
The original WGS_1984_India_NSF_LCC projected coordinate system is retained
in the .prj file. Coordinates are metres, not latitude/longitude. Do not
assign EPSG:4326 to these coordinates; use your GIS's reprojection/export
function if geographic coordinates are required.

SOURCE AND ATTRIBUTION
National Water Data Portal (NWIC), District Boundary dataset:
https://nwdp.nwic.gov.in/dataset/district-boundary
Resource: District NWIC, SHP, resource date 1 May 2025.
The dataset page names Geological Survey of India as producer; individual
source records identify Survey of India (SOI). Original agency attributes
are preserved. This is a subset of that published data, not a new survey.
The portal labels the resource 'Other (Open)'. Its copyright policy permits
accurate reproduction with prominent source acknowledgement, subject to
its stated third-party-material exception:
https://nwdp.nwic.gov.in/footer/copyrightPolicy

WHAT WE DID
Selected 11 records where state='DL', and the single record where state='JK'
and district='Jammu', from the 733-record download. Rewrote complete shapefile
containers without changing source geometry, projection or attributes.
Reopened the exports, compared every coordinate/part/attribute to the source,
checked all 12 geometries for validity and tested ZIP integrity.

VERSION
These files provide the requested 11-district Delhi geography. The source
resource date is May 2025; the preparation date does not make this a 2026
boundary survey. Use the administrative vintage appropriate to your study.

Source ZIP SHA-256:
0c8253fed246a2823c6b08cef25bb40a1cd388334a425f18826f0d598879c526
Delhi subset ZIP SHA-256:
da1f397fd5ff761ce8ccdf7ada63e5417ec00c033400026fb472d8416e165cc5
Jammu subset ZIP SHA-256:
0c8959e7e3a8b32368f42142336aafbd3010b67acc0fb9b70a59078d72ee90c7

Questions or a problem opening the files: civicdataforgehq@gmail.com