This registry is the parliamentary companion to the Quarterly Reportage: where the reportage tracks what government announced, this tracks what Parliament asked — and the ministry's answer of record. Questions are classified by the same scheme-keyword map, so the two views filter identically. Use it to find the answer, then read the answer. The Rajya Sabha registry covers the upper house. The underlying data analysis and build scripts are backed up at github.com/herrrickshaw.

Method. Harvested from sansad.in's Lok Sabha Q&A index by subject keyword (17th LS: 2019–2024; 18th LS: 2024–today), then classified against the same scheme-regex map and acronym-veto list as the Quarterly Reportage — so “Sanchar Mitra” does not file under PM MITRA and IIT (ISM) Dhanbad does not file under the Semiconductor Mission here either. Generated 2026-08-19 by scripts/build_pq_registry.py in digital-twin-for-ipa.

Known limits, stated rather than hidden. The sansad.in index matches keywords against the subject line only, so a question whose subject names no scheme is not captured even when its answer discusses one at length — coverage is of scheme-titled questions, not of every mention. Ministries answer as of their date; figures in older answers are superseded by newer ones. A row whose subject has nothing to do with its chip is a classification bug, not a parliamentary fact.

Why UDAN/RCS specifically draws this much scrutiny. At 273 of 1,890 questions — nearly one in seven, and comfortably ahead of every other scheme this registry tracks — UDAN's dominance isn't really about the scheme's size in rupee terms; several other schemes in this same registry carry larger outlays. It's about how the scheme is structured. UDAN's viability-gap funding subsidises specific, named air routes between specific, named airports, and each route sits inside one or more Lok Sabha constituencies by construction. A route delay, a suspension, an airline exiting a route, or a new route being announced is a directly constituency-relevant event in a way that a sector-wide capital subsidy or a national tax credit rarely is — an MP whose constituency airport lost a UDAN-subsidised flight has an obvious, specific reason to ask about it on the floor, while a scheme that pays out through a formula with no geographic face doesn't generate that same volume of individually-triggered questions. The Lok Sabha's own structure amplifies this: its members represent constituencies directly, unlike the Rajya Sabha's state-level representation, so a scheme whose unit of delivery is a single route or airport will always show up more here than in the upper house's own registry.

What this registry is for, on this blog specifically. Like its Rajya Sabha and Quarterly Reportage companions, this isn't a standalone reference — it's the search index this blog's own articles use to locate the specific parliamentary reply behind a disbursement figure. A scheme's announced outlay is usually easy to find in a PIB release; how much of it has actually reached beneficiaries is, far more often, buried in a written Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha answer that took a keyword search across thousands of questions to locate. Where an article on this blog cites a specific answer date, question number, or minister's name for a disbursement figure, it was very likely surfaced through this same subject-line classification pipeline rather than read directly off sansad.in.

This page was built with AI assistance from the public sansad.in Lok Sabha Q&A index linked above. AI-generated text can misstate figures even when working from real source material — verify any number that matters to a decision against the linked answer PDF.