The order of evidence

  1. Official records first. Laws, court judgments, replies in Parliament, Election Commission data and sworn filings.
  2. Reporting second. News reports, used mainly where they carry an official figure that we could not find in its original document.
  3. Estimates last, and labelled. Research estimates and off-the-record accounts are used only where no official figure exists, and the narration says “estimate” in the same sentence.

Where sources disagree, we give a range or use the better-supported figure. Arithmetic done on an estimate is itself an estimate, and is labelled as one.

The three tags

Every source on this site carries one of three tags. The tag describes the document, so you can see at a glance what kind of evidence stands behind a number.

OfficialA law, a court, Parliament, the Election Commission or sworn filings, or a direct analysis of those filings.
ReportingA news report. It may carry an official figure; the note under the source says so.
EstimateA research estimate, an off-the-record account or an opinion. It cannot be audited.

The process for each video

Research and scripts are AI-assisted and checked line by line against cited sources before publishing; narration is an AI voice; animation is code-rendered.

  1. Research. Every claim in the draft goes into a table: the claim as spoken, the figure, the source, the publisher, the date and whether it is official or an estimate.
  2. Fact-check. The script is checked line by line against that table. A line that cannot be sourced is rewritten or removed.
  3. Lock. Once the narration is recorded, its text is locked. The transcript on this site is that text, word for word.
  4. Translations. The Hindi and Malayalam versions are translated back into English and compared with the original. Every number, unit and “official” or “estimate” label must match.
  5. Everything around the video. Titles, thumbnail text, descriptions and social posts go through the same check as the script.

Citations

In transcripts and articles, a number in brackets, like [1], leads to the numbered source at the end of the page. Every sentence that contains a figure has at least one. A video page is not published if a figure has no source.

Each source lists the publisher, the title, the date it was published, a link, the date we opened it, and an archived copy in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Web pages move and disappear; the archived copy shows what the page said when we used it.

How numbers are written

  • Rupees with the ₹ sign, in lakh and crore, with Indian digit grouping (₹1,00,000).
  • A year with every figure, because limits, prices and pay scales change.
  • Rounded figures say so: “about”, “roughly”, “over”.

Corrections

If you find an error, write to feedback@jaagogenz.com. Confirmed errors are fixed and listed, with the date, on the corrections page.