Promise Status Tracker

Where does each promise stand?

Monitor promise status, source strength, implementation signals, and last-reviewed notes in a clean civic tracker.

Tracker methodology

A promise is not counted from a headline alone

This tracker separates three things that are often mixed together in political coverage: the original manifesto promise, the first public announcement after taking office, and measurable implementation. A promise can be important even when it has no public update yet, so those items remain visible instead of disappearing from the record.

The progress bar is not a popularity score. It is a reading aid that reflects the strength of the public record available to this site. A promise moves forward when there are stronger records such as government orders, department circulars, budget allocations, rollout portals, beneficiary lists, court filings, or reliable follow-up reporting.

The tracker is intentionally conservative. A speech, campaign statement, or press report can move a promise to Announced or In Progress, but Completed requires evidence that the policy is actually operating for the intended public group.

Evidence ladder

What makes a record stronger?

Official documents carry the most weight: government orders, gazette records, court documents, Assembly records, and department releases.

Established publishers are used when official records are not yet public, especially for legal, political, or cabinet developments.

Single-source claims stay cautious until confirmed by a primary source, a second reliable report, or a later correction.

User comments are not used as evidence for promise status. They are treated as moderated public opinion only.

Promise

Rs 2,500 monthly aid for eligible women heads of families

The August 2026 Budget and the government's 100-day communication created or highlighted several women-focused welfare lines, including Singappen, marriage support, maternal care, SHG credit, women-entrepreneurship support, goat-rearing support, and Thaai Maaman baby support. Reviewed reports still do not confirm a dedicated order, eligibility list, payment portal, or start date for the separate Rs 2,500 monthly-aid promise, so this remains in no-public-update status.

Reviewed 27 Aug 2026

Women

No Public Update Yet
Early
Times of India / Indian Express Tamil

Six free LPG cylinders per household annually

The August 24 Assembly announcement says Annapoorani Super Six will begin around Pongal 2027 by crediting the value of three LPG cylinders a year to eligible families after cylinder purchase and delivery. The reported coverage target is about 1.3 crore families, with annual household income up to Rs 2.5 lakh and specified vulnerable categories included, and an estimated annual cost of about Rs 4,000 crore. Because the campaign promise was six cylinders per year, TVK Tracker marks this as announced movement, not complete fulfilment. Track the government order, DBT workflow, supplier coordination, beneficiary verification, grievance process, budget release, and whether the remaining three-cylinder phase is scheduled.

Reviewed 27 Aug 2026

Household Welfare

Announced
Developing
CM Press Desk / LiveMint

200 free electricity units per household per month

Day-one records say Vijay signed a file expanding household free electricity to 200 units, and the August 100-day update again lists the free-power measure among early government claims. The tracker keeps it in progress because reports describe the benefit at different billing-cycle levels, while the public still needs the exact TANGEDCO order, tariff schedule, subsidy accounting, eligibility conditions, and household coverage data before calling the promise fully implemented.

Reviewed 27 Aug 2026

Household Welfare

In Progress
Developing
CM Press Office / Indian Express Tamil

Eight grams of gold and silk saree for eligible brides

August 6 Budget coverage says Annan's Seer received a Rs 812 crore allocation for gold-and-silk marriage support, while the later 100-day video coverage also lists the scheme but describes the gold quantity differently. TVK Tracker therefore records movement on the scheme while keeping the exact benefit design open until the government order is available. Track income ceilings, registration rules, procurement, district social-welfare instructions, application routes, and beneficiary verification before marking delivery complete.

Reviewed 27 Aug 2026

Women

Announced
Developing
Times of India / Indian Express Tamil

Free travel for women across government bus services

The August 24 Assembly announcement says Vettri Payanam will expand from October 2, 2026, to cover Express, Limited Stop Service and Deluxe government buses in metropolitan and urban areas, plus regular fare buses in mofussil and hill areas, with no income cap or journey limit for women. LiveMint also reported transgender inclusion in the broader free-travel expansion. This is now a strong announcement, but delivery depends on the transport department order, eligible service list, ticketing instructions, reimbursement model, depot and route readiness, operator compliance, usage reporting, and whether crowded ordinary services remain protected.

Reviewed 27 Aug 2026

Women

Announced
Developing
CM Press Desk / LiveMint

Rani Velu Nachiyar Force for women safety

Day-one records cite a dedicated women-safety force as one of the first signed files. June 9 coverage reports the launch of the Singappen Special Task Force, Vijay later referred to Singappen during his NITI Aayog address, and the 100-day video coverage lists Singappen among early government actions. Track the formal notification, recruitment, district deployment, complaint pathways, training, powers, and response-time data before marking the promise verified.

Reviewed 27 Aug 2026

Women Safety

In Progress
Developing
The New Indian Express / Indian Express Tamil

Second AIIMS for Tamil Nadu, preferably at Coimbatore

At the June 12 NITI Aayog meeting, Vijay requested a second AIIMS for Tamil Nadu, preferably at Coimbatore, and said the state would provide land. Track Union approval, site identification, land transfer, budget sanction, and construction timeline.

Reviewed 27 Aug 2026

Public Health

Announced
Early
Times of India

Health insurance cover raised to Rs 25 lakh

The August 19 Assembly statement announced that the Chief Minister's health insurance scheme cover would rise from Rs 5 lakh to Rs 25 lakh, and later reporting added related public-health capacity measures: 6,098 additional healthcare seats, seven new government nursing colleges, a planned 400-bed multi-speciality hospital in Perambalur, and selected transgender healthcare services. This is a stronger public-health signal, but the tracker keeps it at announced status until insurer instructions, hospital-network rules, seat notifications, hospital tenders, staffing plans, package-rate changes, claim limits, and beneficiary data are available.

Reviewed 27 Aug 2026

Public Health

Announced
Developing
CM Press Desk / The Statesman

Singa Pengal support for women-led self-help groups

Budget reporting says women's livelihood measures include an SHG investment subsidy of up to Rs 5 lakh, a Rs 38,000 crore annual credit-plan target for SHG loans, and Rs 225 crore for women entrepreneurs. Track whether this maps to the manifesto promise through formal scheme rules, beneficiary categories, bank participation, interest terms, repayment support, and district-level approvals.

Reviewed 27 Aug 2026

Women Entrepreneurship

Announced
Early
Times of India

Gold ring and baby welcome kit for newborns

PTI reporting carried by The Navhind Times says the government has issued work orders for nearly 1.28 lakh 22-carat gold rings in the first batch, with the launch planned for September 15 and eligibility expected for babies born in government hospitals from June 22. The report also notes a larger annual provision for more than 4.41 lakh rings. This moves the promise from announcement to active procurement, while the tracker still watches for government-hospital workflow, birth-registration linkage, quality checks, supplier invoices, district stock, beneficiary records, and whether any broader baby kit is separately notified.

Reviewed 27 Aug 2026

Family Welfare

In Progress
Developing
PTI / The Navhind Times

Drug-free Tamil Nadu through laws, policing, and student forums

Day-one records cite statewide anti-drug trafficking units, June coverage recorded a Chennai awareness run, and July reporting says Tamil Nadu and Kerala discussed Operation Toofan coordination. August Budget reporting added school anti-drug clubs and a reporting tool, the August 17 Assembly update referred to 65 anti-narcotics task-force units, and Vijay used the Southern Zonal Council to call for interstate intelligence sharing and tighter checks on online prescription sales. Track legal notifications, staffing, school coverage, data safeguards, joint operations, enforcement data, de-addiction access, and rehabilitation support before treating the promise as implemented.

Reviewed 27 Aug 2026

Youth

In Progress
Substantial
NDTV / CM Press Desk

100 Kamaraj residential schools for Classes 6 to 12

Budget reporting says the government will launch Perunthalaivar Kamarajar Schools of Excellence for Classes IX-XII at a cost of Rs 125 crore, with free food, boarding, textbooks, and uniforms. Because the reported Budget model does not yet exactly match the manifesto wording of 100 schools for Classes 6 to 12, track scheme notification, school count, class coverage, locations, admissions, staffing, and capital works before marking the original promise fulfilled.

Reviewed 27 Aug 2026

Education

Announced
Early
Times of India

Tamil Nadu NEET exemption and Class 12 based medical admissions

At the June 12 NITI Aayog meeting, Vijay reiterated Tamil Nadu's opposition to NEET and proposed that state-quota MBBS, BDS, and AYUSH admissions be based on Class 12 marks. He raised the issue again at the August 20 Southern Zonal Council, placing the demand before a formal Centre-state forum. Track Union response, legal pathway, Assembly resolutions, admission rules, National Medical Commission or court developments, and whether Tamil Nadu publishes a fresh bill or litigation strategy before treating this as implementation.

Reviewed 27 Aug 2026

Education

Announced
Early
Times of India / NDTV

Release of Rs 3,284 crore Samagra Shiksha funds

Vijay asked the Union government to release Rs 3,284 crore in pending Samagra Shiksha funds without linking the release to NEP or the three-language policy. Track Union response, payment release, conditionality, and school-level spending records.

Reviewed 27 Aug 2026

Education

Announced
Early
Times of India

Five lakh new government jobs

Track sanctioned posts, vacancy notifications, recruitment boards, appointment orders, and department-wise hiring progress.

Reviewed 27 Aug 2026

Jobs

No Public Update Yet
Initial
Moneycontrol

Five lakh stipend-based internships each year

Times of India previously reported Vijay's NITI Aayog reference to annual internships and a Youth Skill and Employment Mission. August Budget reporting says the state skill-development programme has been renamed Vettri Thiran Payirchi with a higher allocation, while 100-day coverage lists training for 12 lakh students and one lakh youth. Track whether the separate stipend-internship promise, employer partners, portal rules, certification, placements, and completion data are publicly notified.

Reviewed 27 Aug 2026

Youth

In Progress
Developing
Times of India / Indian Express Tamil

Right to Service Act and Vetri Tamil Nadu Super App

Economic Times reported Budget announcements including the Namma Salai app for road-defect reporting and a SPEED platform for faster planning approvals. The August 18 launch of presenceless registration for selected documents adds a real citizen-service workflow to this file. These are useful service-delivery signals, but the broader Right to Service Act and super-app promise still needs law text, delay penalties, covered services, grievance escalation, public dashboards, and usage statistics.

Reviewed 27 Aug 2026

Governance

Announced
Early
Economic Times / CM Press Desk

Tamil Nadu Real-Time Governance Dashboard

The June 6 first-cabinet roadmap groups 436 initiatives into pillars and asks ministers to prepare implementation blueprints. The August Budget adds digital-governance signals such as Namma Salai, SPEED, Guidance 3.0, and Single Window Portal 3.0, and the presenceless-registration launch shows one workflow moving online. Track whether these separate systems become a public real-time dashboard with budgets, owners, scheme feeds, status updates, and open data.

Reviewed 27 Aug 2026

Transparency

In Progress
Developing
The New Indian Express / CM Press Desk

AI ministry, AI University, AI City, and regional AI hubs

Economic Times reported that the Budget includes a feasibility study for Arivagam, described as an AI and Innovation City with proposed AI-university, skill, semiconductor-testing, incubation, and residential components. Track ministry notification, feasibility output, land decision, legislation, capital budget, delivery agency, regional hub mapping, and public procurement before moving beyond announced status.

Reviewed 27 Aug 2026

Technology

Announced
Early
Economic Times

Financially self-reliant Tamil Nadu

The maiden Budget is the first real baseline for the self-reliance promise. Economic Times reported a $1.5 trillion economy roadmap, and Indian Express later reported that the government claimed more than Rs 1 lakh crore in investment agreements during the first 100 days. This improves the investment-pipeline side of the file, but fiscal self-reliance still depends on actual capital inflow, tax and non-tax revenue, debt path, welfare liabilities, capital spending, independent audit findings, and whether promised schemes are funded without hidden arrears.

Reviewed 27 Aug 2026

Finance

In Progress
Developing
Economic Times / The Indian Express

Business licences within 21 days

Economic Times reported that the Budget proposes Guidance 3.0 and an upgraded Tamil Nadu Single Window Portal 3.0. Indian Express later reported that the government pitched a 21-day clock for selected approvals, licences, and invoices at the investment conclave. This moves the promise from concept to public operating commitment, but it still needs service-specific timelines, deemed-approval rules, appeal rights, dashboard data, and disposal statistics showing whether decisions actually happen within the promised window.

Reviewed 27 Aug 2026

Business

Announced
Developing
Economic Times / The Indian Express

Crop-loan waiver for farmers based on landholding

Earlier reporting recorded opposition criticism of a crop-loan waiver announcement, and Vijay later highlighted a Rs 2,045 crore cooperative crop-loan waiver scheme at the NITI Aayog meeting. August 6 farmer responses to the Agriculture Budget said the full loan-waiver expectation was not clearly met, while the August 100-day update again lists crop-loan waiver action. Track the underlying order, cooperative-bank rules, landholding or borrower limits, waiver amount, revised Budget debate, district-wise beneficiary lists, and actual account adjustments before marking implementation verified.

Reviewed 27 Aug 2026

Farmers

In Progress
Developing
Times of India / CM Press Desk

Legally guaranteed MSP for paddy and sugarcane

Times of India reported that farmer groups expected the Budget to address reported TVK promises of Rs 3,500 per quintal for paddy and Rs 4,500 per tonne for sugarcane, but criticised the Budget for not including a clear MSP hike. The August 100-day video coverage later listed paddy and sugarcane price-incentive claims, including figures below the reported manifesto targets. TVK Tracker marks this as announced movement, not fulfilment of a legally guaranteed MSP. Track procurement orders, price-support law, crop coverage, funding, and payment records.

Reviewed 27 Aug 2026

Farmers

Announced
Early
Times of India / Indian Express Tamil

100 percent crop insurance coverage

Times of India reported that the Agriculture Budget included Rs 648.55 crore for Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana coverage, with a stated aim of covering 36 lakh acres and benefiting around 15 lakh farmers. Track enrolment rules, premium subsidy, eligible crops, claim triggers, district coverage, and claim-settlement data before calling the broader 100 percent coverage promise delivered.

Reviewed 27 Aug 2026

Farmers

Announced
Early
Times of India

Centre request on fishermen rights, safety, and boat release

At NITI Aayog, Vijay sought Union diplomatic action to protect traditional fishing rights in the Palk Bay and secure the release of Tamil Nadu fishermen and boats held in Sri Lanka and Pakistan. The August 19 Assembly walkout over a Mayiladuthurai fisherman's death keeps fishermen safety in active debate. Track diplomatic steps, releases, compensation, consular support, safety protocols, and fishermen-welfare follow-up.

Reviewed 27 Aug 2026

Fisheries

Announced
Early
Times of India / CM Press Desk

Vetri Veedu housing and concrete-house support

The August 100-day video coverage lists Vetri Veedu and concrete-house support among early government claims, including a reported large allocation and a 70,000-house target. TVK Tracker records this as a housing-policy file that needs formal scheme orders, eligibility rules, district-wise targets, land and title checks, contractor or self-build rules, instalment schedules, completion certificates, and public beneficiary data before any delivery claim is marked verified.

Reviewed 27 Aug 2026

Housing

Announced
Early
Indian Express Tamil

Salary promises for anganwadi and sanitation workers

Times of India reported on July 22 that Minister M. Vijay Balaji said steps would be taken to regularise contract sanitation workers. This is a public signal for the sanitation-worker side of the promise, but not yet a salary or service-order completion. Track department orders, worker categories, pay scale, contractor transition, arrears, payroll updates, and whether anganwadi-worker salary commitments receive a separate order.

Reviewed 27 Aug 2026

Workers

Announced
Early
Times of India

Code of conduct for MLAs and ministers

The official action plan proposes conduct rules, and June coverage records school-access warnings and clean-government language. July reporting says Vijay warned ministers against corruption and publicity-oriented reel shoots in schools, while the party removed a local functionary after a bribe-video allegation. August added live accountability files: an unproven tender-commission allegation, an Assembly exchange over alleged corruption files and live-telecast practice, withdrawal of a student-protest circular, Question Hour beginning after opposition pressure, a Governor memorandum alleging MLA inducement, election-petition deadlines, and N. Marie Wilson's bribery-remark controversy. Track formal conduct rules, conflict declarations, tender transparency, live Assembly archives, student-rights guidance, grievance access, DVAC or court process, and enforcement.

Reviewed 27 Aug 2026

Administrative Reform

In Progress
Developing
Hindustan Times / LiveLaw

Madurai branch of the Secretariat

The official action plan proposes a Madurai Secretariat branch. Times of India later reported disappointment among Madurai groups because Vijay's Delhi memorandum did not include a Madurai-specific project. Track location, staffing, budget, and service-delivery notifications before treating this as an implementation step.

Reviewed 27 Aug 2026

Administrative Reform

Announced
Early
TVK official action plan / Times of India

State autonomy and two-language policy

TVK's official ideology page supports state autonomy and a two-language policy. At the June 12 NITI Aayog meeting, Vijay sought release of Samagra Shiksha funds without linking them to NEP or the three-language policy. August updates now add a TVK-alliance resolution against delimitation, a Supreme Court Cauvery compliance checkpoint, the Southern Zonal Council speech on NEET, delimitation, Cauvery, Mekedatu, Mullaperiyar and fiscal federalism, the August 26 Mettur release plan, and an August 27 TNIE report that Vijay opposed amended mining-law provisions affecting state mineral-tax powers. Track Union responses, court filings, water-release data, delimitation documents, mining-tax rules, education-fund conditions, and consultation records.

Reviewed 27 Aug 2026

State Rights

In Progress
Developing
The New Indian Express / Daily Thanthi

Declare Thirukkural as national literature

At the June 12 NITI Aayog meeting, Vijay requested national-literature status for Thirukkural. Track Union cultural-ministry response, formal notification, parliamentary or policy references, and any educational or cultural-programme follow-through.

Reviewed 27 Aug 2026

Tamil Identity

Announced
Early
Times of India