Releasing BRSR Analytics Tool. For Tracking Indian Corporate ESG, Workforce, Wages, Complaints.
Published: April 30, 2026
Sourced from SEBI BRSR XBRL filings. Aggregate views, drilldowns, company view, benchmarking, XBRL viewer & more.
FY 2024-25 data. 712 companies from Nifty Total Market. ~1.25 crore total workforce. Around one-third on contract (other than permanent), less than a fifth female. Over ₹8 lakh crore in wages disclosed.
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A few things that surprised me while building this:
- Companies with large female workforces reporting zero POSH and Sexual Harassment complaints...contrary to rates seen across peers who do report. Either they are doing something the rest of India Inc. should learn from...or a reporting error.
- Wage gap in leadership looks more severe than employee/worker wage gap. Board of Directors and KMP show steeper female negative wage gaps than the rest of the workforce.
- The data quality issue itself - far worse than I have seen in any other regulatory filing. Wrong units, copy-pasted values, internal totals not tallying, PDF vs XBRL mismatches. So bad that most of the 'bugs' in the app were turning out to be DQ / filer errors. Had to build a separate Data Quality tab with its own analytics.
On that DQ point...to my friends on the company side - I feel for you. This is one tough reporting, and I have been on that side too. Free browser-based DQ tool coming soon for BRSR filers - runs locally, private. Purely my self-interest...to make my own analytics easier.
The tool itself:
- 8 indices, 22 sectors and intersect them
- Aggregate level distros...drilldown to company and raw filings
- Compare multiple companies side-by-side
- Company vs. benchmark
- XBRL viewer, data explorer, full CSV
- 'Report' button for any bug or DQ issue
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BRSR Analytics Tool - Walkthrough
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INDIA INC. · FY 2024–25
Workforce,
Wages & Complaints.
A new analytics tool for India's corporate ESG disclosures - 712 listed companies, ~1.25 crore workers, ₹8 lakh crore in wages.
Workforce
Wages
Wage gap
Human rights
Sexual harassment complaints
Amar Harolikar · Decision Sciences & Applied AI
Released 02 MAY 2026 · Sourced from SEBI BRSR XBRL filings
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From 712 XBRL fililngs to one workspace. Aggregate, compare, benchmark.
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Cross-company analytics on BRSR XBRL filings
Aggregate views across 712 Nifty Total Market filers.
Compare any set of companies side-by-side.
XBRL viewer - inspect raw filings.
Data explorer - chart any metric.
CSV download - export the dataset.
'Report' button to flag issues.
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Company view - one company vs. its sector or index benchmark.
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India Inc. workforce in one frame
FY 2024–25 BRSR filings, Nifty Total Market. Numbers on one chart you would otherwise reconstruct from 712 PDFs.
FILERS
712
BRSR filers from the Nifty Total Market index, FY25 reporting cycle.
TOTAL WORKFORCE
~1.25Cr
Aggregate headcount disclosed across employees and workers, all categories.
ON CONTRACT
~⅓
Roughly one-third of the disclosed workforce is non-permanent - contract employees and contract workers.
FEMALE SHARE
<⅕
Less than one-fifth of total disclosed headcount across India Inc.
WAGES DISCLOSED
₹8LCr+
Total wages disclosed in BRSR filings - over eight lakh crore rupees.
INDICES
8
Slice across 8 indices and 22 sectors - and intersect them.
SECTORS
22
Sector cuts spanning IT, BFSI, Pharma, Auto, Metals, FMCG and more.
REPORTING PRINCIPLES
A + P5
BRSR Section A plus Principle 5 (human rights). More principles to follow.
Amar Harolikar · Decision Sciences & Applied AI
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What you can do with it
Six surfaces, one dataset. Every view links back to the source XBRL.
01 / Aggregate
Cross-company distros
See the full distribution across 712 filers - wage gap buckets, complaint rates, female representation, headcount mix.
02 / Compare
Side-by-side
Pick any set of companies and put their workforce, wage and complaints disclosures next to each other.
03 / Benchmark
Company vs. peer
Place a single company against its sector or index benchmark - including the rate-bucket it sits in.
04 / Explorer
Drill from chart to filing
Every aggregate clicks through to company-level numbers and raw line items.
05 / XBRL viewer
Read the source filing
Inspect the original XBRL in-browser. Full CSV download for any view.
06 / Data Quality
Data Quality Analytics
Wrong units, copy-pasted values, mismatches surfaced as their own dashboard. Report button on every view.
Amar Harolikar · Decision Sciences & Applied AI
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SECTION · FROM BUILDING IT
Three things that surprised me.
01
Companies with large female workforces reporting zero POSH complaints.
02
The wage gap in leadership looks more severe than at the worker level.
03
Data quality was worse than any regulatory filing I have seen - bad enough to need its own tab.
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The zero-complaint puzzle
Across 712 filers, 418 (59%) reported zero POSH complaints in FY25 - many of them with sizable female workforces.
THE QUESTION
Either these companies are doing something the rest of India Inc. should learn from, or there is a reporting gap.
Aggregate filing rate sits at 12.38 POSH complaints per 10K female workforce across the Nifty 750. The zero-bucket dwarfs every other bucket - 418 of 712 filers.
POSH filing rate distribution · FY25
Companies bucketed by complaints filed per 10K female workforce
RATE / 10K FEMALE
COMPANIES
SHARE
0
418
59%
0–5
27
4%
5–10
41
6%
10–25
92
13%
25+
131
18%
No female workforce
1
0%
Data quality flagged
2
0%
Source: SEBI BRSR XBRL filings, FY25 · 712 Nifty Total Market filers
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Wage gap widens at the top
Median female-male wage gap across 712 BRSR filers, FY25. Steeper at KMP and Directors than at employees - the opposite of what most readers assume.
PERMANENT EMPLOYEES
The baseline
−7%
median wage gap
Most filers sit between −25% and ±5%. Real, but bounded.
KEY MANAGERIAL PERSONNEL
9× steeper than employees
−64%
median wage gap
21% of filers below −50%. 60% report all-male KMP entirely.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
7× steeper than employees
−47%
median wage gap
17% of filers below −50%. Distribution far more dispersed than employees.
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Data quality, the elephant in the room
DQ was bad enough that most of the early "bugs" in the app turned out to be filer errors. So the app got its own DQ tab with 17 distinct DQ categories & a DQ Explorer
×
Wrong units. Numbers reported in lakhs, crores and units interchangeably across the same filing.
×
Copy-pasted values. Identical figures across rows that should not be identical - across years, categories, genders.
×
Internal totals not tallying. Disclosed sub-categories that don't add up to the disclosed total in the same filing.
×
PDF vs XBRL mismatches. Same disclosure but different numbers across the two formats from the same company.
"Worse than any other regulatory filing I have analyzed - and I have looked at a few."
- Observation while building the BRSR Analytics tool
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A NOTE TO MY FRIENDS ON THE COMPANY SIDE
BRSR is one tough reporting. I have been on that side too.
COMING SOON
A free, browser-based DQ tool for BRSR filers. Runs locally in the browser - nothing leaves the machine.
WHY
Honestly self-interest. Cleaner filings make the analytics a lot easier to build.
Amar Harolikar · Decision Sciences & Applied AI
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LIVE NOW · RELEASED 02 MAY 2026
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India VIGIL App is the home for BRSR Analytics. Aggregate, compare, benchmark, and read the raw XBRL - all from one place.
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COVERAGE
712 BRSR filers Nifty Total Market · FY25
SURFACES
Aggregate · Compare · Benchmark Explorer · XBRL · Data Quality
FOUND A BUG?
Use the Report button on any view.
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