Government promises

When a minister tells Parliament "we will look into it" or "we will provide the figures", it is recorded as an assurance. CivicLens tracks all of them, from the official record. Built 15 Nov 2026.

16,550assurances given in Parliament, 1987 to 2026

82 percentrecorded as fulfilled (13,606)

1,832still pending

1,181pending for more than a year

499 daysmedian time to fulfil, from the day it was given

Which ministries keep their word

Every promise a minister gave on the floor of Parliament and agreed to follow up. Click a column heading to sort. Ministries with fewer than five assurances are left out.

Ministry	Assurances	Fulfilled	Pending	Pending over a year	Dropped	Median days to fulfil
Railways	1,038	78%	127	79	98	504 days
Finance	911	88%	50	30	61	383 days
Education	822	86%	74	61	38	534 days
Road Transport and Highways	784	81%	119	56	29	478 days
Home Affairs	780	84%	7	5	116	491 days
Law and Justice	668	79%	38	33	103	615 days
Civil Aviation	661	70%	165	85	30	464 days
Communications	630	92%	32	16	19	574 days
Health and Family Welfare	626	88%	54	35	21	523 days
Defence	559	89%	22	21	39	487 days
Chemicals and Fertilizers	557	88%	61	29	5	757 days
Labour and Employment	523	86%	56	36	19	606 days
Environment, Forests and Climate Change	437	93%	9	5	22	702 days
Agriculture and Farmers Welfare	417	87%	39	32	15	345 days
Coal	347	92%	22	10	6	519 days
Petroleum and Natural Gas	332	86%	36	20	11	477 days
Housing and Urban Affairs	331	76%	59	42	21	443 days
Jal Shakti	328	79%	48	38	22	398 days
Rural Development	320	82%	28	17	29	407 days
Social Justice and Empowerment	306	76%	58	51	14	824 days
Culture	294	76%	45	35	26	515 days
Power	289	71%	58	29	26	510 days
Information and Broadcasting	284	93%	14	11	6	657 days
Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution	279	92%	12	4	10	374 days
Commerce and Industry	276	76%	45	36	22	379 days
Ports, Shipping and Waterways	259	73%	55	30	14	600 days
Women and Child Development	219	77%	14	10	36	508 days
Youth Affairs & Sports	217	86%	16	11	14	730 days
Textiles	196	77%	22	15	23	377 days
Niti Aayog	190	85%	5	4	24	581 days
Tribal Affairs	185	73%	32	19	18	532 days
Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions	180	83%	12	12	19	840 days
Corporate Affairs	177	81%	23	17	11	476 days
Tourism	176	68%	51	42	6	492 days
External Affairs	159	80%	17	10	15	490 days
Atomic Energy	148	49%	58	38	17	513 days
Science and Technology	143	90%	12	6	2	434 days
New and Renewable Energy	129	74%	27	9	7	463 days
Ayush	120	88%	5	4	9	418 days
Electronics and Information Technology	117	60%	28	23	19	627 days
Skill Development and Entrepreneurship	113	83%	17	11	2	517 days
Heavy Industries	103	80%	4	4	17	576 days
Minority Affairs	97	62%	27	23	10	636 days
Mines	95	92%	7	6	1	457 days
Steel	90	96%	2	1	2	373 days
Earth Science	79	77%	12	10	6	433 days
Space	76	67%	21	11	4	496 days
Cooperation	67	69%	18	12	3	505 days
Micro Small and Medium Enterprises	64	67%	14	5	7	373 days
Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying	63	76%	14	10	1	589 days
Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation	62	95%	0	0	3	357 days
Food Processing Industries	44	73%	7	3	5	379 days
Panchayati Raj	38	74%	8	5	2	572 days
Overseas Indian Affairs	33	97%	0	0	1	540 days
Drinking Water and Sanitation	32	97%	0	0	1	376 days
Statistics and Programme Implementation	31	84%	5	0	0	511 days
Development of North Eastern Region	17	47%	6	4	3	too few
Parliamentary Affairs	13	92%	1	0	0	867 days
Environment, Forests & Climate Change	7	0%	7	5	0	too few

Find a promise

Search by subject, assurance number or ministry. For open promises, the last column is the model estimate that it will be recorded as fulfilled within 90 days. How reliable is that estimate?

Number	Given on	Subject	Ministry	Status	Fulfilled in 90 days