Frequently asked questions

What is this site?

Kerala Promises is a public ledger of every commitment made by the UDF government in its 2026 manifesto, with the current status of each promise and evidence behind it. The full record runs for the five-year term, from May 2026 to May 2031.

Are you a political party? A campaign?

No. We are not affiliated with any political party, campaign, advocacy group, or election commission. We are a small group of volunteer editors maintaining a public record.

Why only the UDF? Why not the opposition’s promises too?

We track the manifesto of the party that holds power, because that is the manifesto being acted on. A government can only deliver on its own manifesto, not on the opposition’s. If the LDF returns to power in 2031, we would expect a successor project to track its manifesto on the same terms.

We do not record off-manifesto government actions in the main register; those are recorded separately on the initiatives page. We do not record the opposition’s promises.

Are you fair to the government?

We try to be. We use four status values and let evidence move promises between them. We require formal documents for fulfilment. We require closed doors for evasion. We require admissible sources for every change. Editors with conflicts of interest must disclose them.

If we are not fair on a specific entry, tell us. Open an issue, write to corrections@keralapromises.in, or open a pull request. The history of the change is in Git forever, so any unfairness is auditable.

How do you decide whether a promise is “fulfilled”?

Fulfilment requires either a formal document — a gazette notification, an enacted bill, a published government order — that operationalises the promise to the level the manifesto committed to, or verified on-ground evidence sourced from Tier 1 or Tier 2 that the benefit is being delivered to the promised beneficiaries.

A pilot is not fulfilment. A rebranded existing scheme is not fulfilment. An announcement is not fulfilment. See the methodology for the full rule.

What if a promise is partly fulfilled?

There is no “partly fulfilled” status. A promise that is moving but not delivered is in_progress. A promise that is fully delivered is fulfilled. We do not measure delivery on a sliding scale because there is no admissible measurement that holds up across the range of promise types in the manifesto.

The body of each promise page records what is known about progress, with evidence. The four-state header tells you where the promise sits in the ledger.

What does “evaded” mean?

Evaded is reserved for cases where the government has taken an action that makes fulfilment structurally impossible. Privatising what was promised to be revived. Repealing what was promised to be enacted. Announcing in a Tier 1 or Tier 2 source that the promise will not be pursued. Slow progress is not evasion.

We use this status with great care. Editors require at least two admissible sources, including one Tier 1 or Tier 2, before moving a promise to evaded.

Can I submit information?

Yes. The submission form is linked from every page. You do not need a GitHub account. You do not need to know how to write code. You do need to cite a source from the hierarchy on the methodology page.

Can I submit anonymously?

Yes. You can ask to remain anonymous in the public record, in which case the pull request lists the editor who handled your submission, not your name. Editors keep submitter contact information confidential and delete it after the entry is merged, unless you ask us to attribute the submission to you.

We do not accept anonymous accusations without sources. The source must be admissible, even when the submitter is anonymous.

Why isn’t promise X here yet?

The full manifesto extraction is a separate phase. At the start of the site, we publish a small set of flagship promises, then expand. If a promise you care about is missing, open an issue or tell us through the form, and we will add it.

You said this is non-partisan, but you used the words “the people of Kerala” — isn’t that political?

It is. We are doing this for the people of Kerala. That is the political constituency this record serves. It does not commit us to any party or any ideology, but it commits us to a public.

Will you also track central government promises that affect Kerala?

No. Central government promises live in a separate ledger maintained by separate people. We focus on the Kerala manifesto so that the record we maintain is one we can hold to a high standard. Doing more, badly, would help no one.

Is the site available in Malayalam?

The Malayalam translation is in progress. We ship English first because we can ship it carefully. The language toggle on every page is visible from launch but disabled until the translation is reviewed. The data model is bilingual from day one, so the switch will be a content release, not a code rewrite.

Can I republish or build on the data?

Yes. The data is available as a JSON API at /api/promises.json and as an RSS feed at /rss.xml. The content is CC BY-SA 4.0 — you can republish, remix, and build on it, with attribution and under the same licence. The code is MIT. If you build something useful with the data, write to us — we would like to know.

How do I correct an error?

Open an issue or a pull request, or email corrections@keralapromises.in. We do not silently rewrite past entries. We add corrections, mark the prior text as superseded, and keep the history in Git.

Who pays for this?

Hosting is provided by Cloudflare Pages on their free tier. The domain is paid for by the editors. Editor time is volunteered. We accept no advertising and no political donations. If the project ever needs more than the editors can self-fund, we will publish a separate page describing how money is raised and spent. Until then, there is nothing to disclose.

Will you cover the 2031 election?

The current commitment is to cover the 2026 manifesto across the 2026 to 2031 term. Whether to continue after 2031, and on what terms, is a decision for the editor team at that point, made in public.

I have a question that isn’t here.

Write to hello@keralapromises.in or open a discussion on the GitHub repository. We will read it and, where the answer is useful to other readers, add it to this page.