100 AI Prompts to Investigate India’s Government, Public Money & Governance | AIToolsBowl

Where does public money go? Are jobs, roads, water, electricity and welfare reaching people? What do audits and original records reveal? Use 100 evidence-first AI prompts to investigate India’s governance, politics, public services and social harmony—without party bias.

India’s public debate is full of claims: record development, historic spending, corruption allegations, religious polarisation, jobs created, projects completed and prices controlled. But what do the original records actually show?

**Your Money. Their Promises. The Real Story.** is a citizen-friendly research guide with 100 ready-to-use AI prompts. It helps readers investigate how public money is collected and spent, whether promises are delivered, what audits reveal, how political parties disclose funding, how essential goods and services change in cost, and whether infrastructure reaches people.

This is not a political-party ranking or an accusation against any government. It is a repeatable method for examining the Union Government, every State Government and local authorities by the same standards. Use the prompts one at a time in ChatGPT Deep Research, Perplexity or another research assistant, then verify the results against original documents.

**A crucial rule:** CAG audit observations are not automatically proof of theft or criminal corruption. A political allegation is not a court finding. A pending criminal case is not a conviction. A government announcement is not proof of completion. The prompts below require evidence status, dates, amounts, responses and source links to remain visible.

## How to use these 100 prompts

1. Choose one prompt and define the state, department, project, scheme or date range. 2. Use the latest five completed financial years where comparable audited data exists. Mark current-year figures as provisional, revised estimates or budget estimates. 3. Ask the AI to open original reports and cite page, table, paragraph or dataset references. Do not accept search snippets as evidence. 4. Compare the government's response and independent analysis. If a document cannot be found, record it as unavailable instead of guessing. 5. Publish a finding only after a human checks the original record, calculations, context and right of reply.

## The six core research organisations—and official data sources

**CAG India** provides statutory audit reports and findings on public expenditure, revenue, projects and public-sector entities. **PRS Legislative Research** explains budgets, bills, parliamentary work and state finances. **ADR / MyNeta** compiles candidate affidavits and political-party financial disclosures. **Factly** and **Alt News** help check public claims, statistics, images and viral content. Government portals such as **India Budget, DEA, RBI, MOSPI and data.gov.in** provide original financial and statistical records.

For prices, jobs, fuel, water, electricity, infrastructure and natural resources, the prompts also point researchers toward relevant official ministries, regulators and statistical agencies. These sources have different roles and methods; one should not be substituted for another. Always record the data's reference date and definition.

## 100 research prompts for citizens

The prompts are grouped into ten areas. Copy any prompt separately. The shared instruction for all prompts is: **be non-partisan; apply the same test to every party and government; cite primary records; distinguish fact, estimate, allegation, audit observation, investigation and judicial finding; include counter-evidence and the concerned authority's response; never invent missing figures.**

## What a useful public finding should contain

For every result, ask for: (1) the exact claim or question, (2) Union/State/local authority, (3) responsible department and administration during the relevant period, (4) financial year or event date, (5) exact amount and units, (6) original source and page/table, (7) calculation method, (8) government or party response, (9) independent counter-evidence, (10) current administrative or legal status, and (11) last-verified date.

## Read the numbers carefully

Budget Estimates are plans, Revised Estimates are updated projections, and Actuals are final reported expenditure when published. Gross tax revenue is not the same as the Union Government's net tax revenue after devolution. Borrowings are not tax collections. Installed power capacity is not actual electricity generation. A sanctioned water connection is not proof of regular safe water supply. A job notification is not a filled post. A project inauguration is not proof that the asset is operating.

## A practical starting point: investigate your own state

Begin with one district and one issue that affects daily life—drinking water, electricity bills, public transport, government vacancies, school facilities, hospital access or food prices. Find the official dataset, compare it with the budget and audit record, check independent fact-checks, and ask the responsible department for missing information through its public disclosure or RTI process. Expand to other states only when definitions and time periods are comparable.

**The purpose is not to tell citizens what to think. It is to give them a disciplined way to find out what happened, what was spent, who was responsible, what changed and what remains unproven.** Public money belongs to the public. Public accountability should be non-negotiable.