How Sarkari Vaade Tracks Promises

Sarkari Vaade tracks publicly made election promises and government commitments. For each state we cover, we start from the ruling party's official election manifesto and map every commitment to a trackable promise. Wherever available, each promise is linked back to the original manifesto wording so anyone can compare what was promised with what is shown on the site.

Document format may vary by election. For some elections, parties release guarantees, pledges, sankalp patras, pratigya patras, or vision documents rather than a document titled manifesto. Sarkari Vaade tracks the original promise wording from the relevant election document or public commitment format. For example, AAP's Punjab 2022 commitments are tracked as "AAP Punjab 2022 Election Guarantees" because they were released as guarantees rather than a conventional manifesto PDF.

Every promise card on Sarkari Vaade is built from the same set of fields:

• Original manifesto wording — the exact text as printed in the manifesto.
• Simplified tracked promise text — a short, citizen-friendly version of the same promise.
• Current verdict — our reading of the evidence (see Section 3).
• Evidence and source links — the documents and pages we relied on.
• Source status — how strong the evidence is (see Section 5).
• Source gap note — where the evidence is incomplete, what is missing.
• Audit trail — review level, last reviewed date, and verdict history when a verdict changes.

Verdicts describe what the public evidence currently shows. They are not permanent and can be updated when stronger evidence becomes available.

Public labels are simplified. For public readability, Sarkari Vaade groups detailed verdicts into four simpler labels: Fulfilled, In progress, Broken / No proof, and Review pending. The detailed verdict (Partially Fulfilled, Not Proven, No Public Data Available, Not Fulfilled / Broken Promise, Policy fulfilled / delivery audit pending, etc.) remains visible inside each promise's View audit details panel and in the audit trail.

Broken / No proof combines two audit situations for public readability: cases where evidence suggests the promise has not been delivered, and cases where sufficient public proof of delivery could not be found. The detailed verdict inside each promise card clarifies which one applies.

These labels match the verdict values used in our database. Internal research notes may include more specific sub-labels (for example, "In progress / target not proven"), but they roll up into the buckets above for public display.

We rely on official and public-record sources, in roughly this order of weight:

• Government department websites
• Government-affiliated bodies, public-sector companies and statutory boards
• Official dashboards (housing, health, education, scheme portals)
• Union and state budget documents
• CAG (Comptroller and Auditor General) reports
• Gazette notifications and Acts
• Assembly questions and answers
• Department annual reports and project reports
• Official scheme portals
• RTI replies
• Court documents, where relevant to the promise
• Public references such as news articles or Wikipedia — used only as context, never as final proof

Each promise carries a source-status label so readers can judge the evidence quickly:

• Official source verified — a government or government-affiliated page directly supports the specific promise, including its target, status, or delivery.
• Topic-level official source found — an official page confirms the scheme, department, or framework exists, but does not yet prove that this specific promise has been delivered. The verdict on the promise is unchanged until delivery-level evidence (GR, budget line, scheme dashboard, completion data, CAG observation, or RTI reply) is attached.
• Official source needed — no usable official source has been located yet.
• RTI likely needed — the information is unlikely to be public and may require a Right to Information request.
• Public reference only — the only available link is a news article, Wikipedia entry, or similar non-official source.

A promise is marked fully audited only when the cited official source directly supports both the promise and the verdict — including the specific numbers, status, completion, or beneficiary count that the verdict relies on.

The existence of an official department page, scheme portal, or press release about the topic is not enough on its own. If a source only proves that the scheme or project exists, but does not prove the milestone, target, or delivery being claimed, the promise stays under a lower source-status label and is not marked fully audited.

When public evidence is incomplete, we say so openly rather than guess. A promise with weak or missing evidence is shown transparently and is given a status such as Official source needed or RTI likely needed. The verdict in such cases is usually Not proven or No public data available — both meaning the same thing for the reader: we could not verify delivery from the public record.

Absence of public evidence does not automatically prove non-implementation. It means fulfilment has not been publicly demonstrated through the sources we reviewed.

• We do not change the original manifesto wording.
• We do not treat political speeches as final proof unless backed by evidence.
• We do not treat Wikipedia as official evidence.
• We do not mark promises fulfilled only because an announcement, foundation stone, MoU, or budget allocation was made.
• We do not hide promises because evidence is incomplete — we publish the gap.

Sarkari Vaade is evidence-led, not ego-led. If a user submits a stronger official source, newer government data, or proof that our mapping is wrong, we review the claim, update the promise card if needed, and record the change in the changelog.

Submitting evidence does not automatically change a verdict. Every submission becomes a review item that our editorial process evaluates against the existing source trail. We do not change verdicts based only on opinion or party claims.

Use the Submit Evidence page to send us the source and promise ID, or click "Dispute or update this verdict" on any promise card. Browse the Changelog for a public record of major source, verdict, methodology and RTI updates.

A verdict is our current assessment of delivery based on public evidence: fulfilled, in progress, broken / no proof, or review pending. Risk flags are separate. They are warnings that show where a promise may be delayed, fiscally strained, only partially rolled out, operationally weak, or not yet verified through expenditure / CAG data. Keeping these two layers separate lets us avoid two mistakes: calling a delivered promise broken only because it is costly, and calling an in-progress promise healthy when the evidence shows serious risk.

Flags we use today include: Delayed rollout, Limited rollout, Fiscal sustainability risk, Spending not CAG-verified, Operational issue, Low uptake, Official tracker missing, Inherited scheme, Announced, not delivered, Budget allocation does not prove expenditure, Policy reversal / rollback risk, and Statewide delivery not proven. On compact cards, up to two flags appear as small badges. The full Risk / caveatpanel — flags plus a short plain-language note — sits inside each promise's expanded audit details, kept visually separate from the verdict.

Sarkari Vaade is a public-interest civic information project. It does not represent any government, political party, or election authority. Verdicts are based on publicly available evidence and may be updated when better evidence becomes available.