Editorial policy

This site publishes information people act on. That obliges us to say plainly how it is produced and how we handle being wrong.

Sourcing

Every procedural claim is checked against the operating department's own website — UIDAI for Aadhaar, the Income Tax Department for PAN, EPFO for provident fund, and so on. Where a fee, deadline or threshold is stated, the source is the department's published fee schedule, circular or FAQ. News reports are used only to find out that something has changed, never as the authority for what it changed to.

Dating

Every guide carries the month it was last verified. Indian government procedures change frequently and often without announcement, so a guide with an old date should be treated as a starting point rather than as current fact. This is why every guide links the official page for each step.

Uncertainty

Where the position is genuinely unsettled — a scheme mid-rollout, a threshold reported inconsistently, a portal in transition — we say so rather than picking a number and sounding confident. A guide that admits what it does not know is more useful than one that guesses.

What we will not publish

• Any method of bypassing a government process, test or verification.
• Links to intermediaries that charge for free government services.
• Advice that would require you to hand your Aadhaar, PAN or bank details to a private party.
• Political commentary. This is a services directory.

Advertising and independence

The site is funded by third-party advertising. No advertiser sees content before publication, and no payment can secure a listing, a link, or favourable wording. Advertising is labelled. If an ad served on this site appears to impersonate a government service, report it to us and we will block that advertiser.

Corrections

Report an error to the address on our contact page. Substantive corrections are made to the page and the verification date is updated. We do not quietly delete pages that were wrong.

Last updated 2026-08-09.