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A participatory process is a sequence of participatory activities (e.g. first filling out a survey, then making proposals, discussing them in face-to-face or virtual meetings, and finally prioritizing them) with the aim of defining and making a decision on a specific topic.
Examples of participatory processes are: a process of electing committee members (where candidatures are first presented, then debated and finally a candidacy is chosen), participatory budgets (where proposals are made, valued economically and voted on with the money available), a strategic planning process, the collaborative drafting of a regulation or norm, the design of an urban space or the production of a public policy plan.
A petition today for tomorrow's purogati
What people want changed — from a streetlight in one ward to a law for the whole country.
About this process
File a petition about anywhere in India — the place you live, or the country as a whole. Every petition is tied to a place, so that what one person notices becomes something everyone can see.
A democracy is not only what happens on polling day. In the years between, most people have no ordinary way to say what they want changed, and no way at all to discover that thousands of others want the same thing. Purogati is an attempt at that missing piece.
A petition here is simply something you want changed, written down and attached to the place it concerns.
It can be small and local — a bus stop that floods every monsoon, a school that needs a roof, a road the panchayat has not repaired in four years. It can be large — a policy you think the state has got wrong, a law you think the country needs. You can petition against something as easily as for it. All of it belongs here, side by side, because that is how people actually experience a place. The pothole and the policy are not separate problems.
Every petition is tied to where it belongs: your panchayat or your ward, your district, your state, or the whole country. That tie is the mechanism. One person noticing a broken thing is an anecdote. The same thing noticed across nine wards of one panchayat is evidence of something structural — and that is a different kind of argument, available to anyone who looks.
These petitions are not sent anywhere. Purogati is not a government body, an NGO, or anyone's representative, and it will not deliver your petition to an official or promise you a reply. What it does is keep petitions together, in public, where they can be counted, compared and built on. A petition no one else shares is still a record. A petition a thousand people share is harder to overlook.
Filing one costs nothing and commits you to nothing. Enough of them, in public, and what people actually want stops being a matter of opinion.
Reference: KF-PART-2026-08-1