Born in HP.
Built for HP.
The Himachal Accountability Project is a citizen-run civic infrastructure initiative — built by people who live here, vote here, and use the same broken roads everyone else is reporting. No Delhi office. No corporate hierarchy. No political backing.
Himachal's administrative failures are documented everywhere except one place — a single, public, searchable record.
Social media posts disappear. RTI replies sit in inboxes. News coverage moves on. HAP exists to make sure every logged grievance accumulates — ward by ward, month by month — into a dataset that can't be ignored, dismissed, or buried.
The people behind the map.
Everyone on this team is from Himachal, knows its geography, and has a personal stake in whether this works. HAP is designed to grow — in contributors, in districts covered, in institutional weight.
Ekaansh founded HAP as a long-term civic infrastructure play — building the platform from scratch while running Verma Digital and Stride simultaneously. He oversees product, strategy, institutional partnerships, and public communications. He is also the author of Tenets to Govern By, a work on governance and administrative philosophy that informs how HAP's methodology is designed.
Ankesh holds an MBA in Rural Development from HP University and has done community-level field work in Mandi and Kullu through the Society for Technology and Development. He brings an academic grounding in CSR, social impact, and rural livelihoods to HAP's research function — sourcing evidence, analysing grievance data, writing campaign copy, and building the distribution pipeline that gets HAP's content to journalists and partners.
Harsh handles everything you see — the reels, carousel posters, exposure dossiers, and visual design of HAP's social output. A B.Com student at HP University with a background in psychology and philosophy, he brings a persuasion-first lens to content: what makes someone stop scrolling, read, share, and act. He edits raw footage, builds visual campaign assets from grievance data, and ensures HAP's output looks authoritative enough to matter.
The line we hold.
This is the exact position given to a journalist, a politician, or a fellowship coordinator who asks what HAP actually is.
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We are a data-driven public utility. We do not support any political party, and we do not oppose any political party. We oppose bad roads, dry taps, and administrative delays.
Our goal is to use modern technology to help the government see real-time ground realities so that public funds are spent efficiently. We are simply here to help the system work faster and better for the people of Himachal.
Four things we don't compromise on.
No political money, ever
We decline contributions from political parties, candidates, elected officials, and their associates — BJP, Congress, AAP, or otherwise. This is structural, not aspirational. The data only means something if no one can buy what it says.
Both parties, equal scrutiny
HAP maps failures under whoever is in power at any given time. If a road has been broken across two different governments, both entries go on the record. Selective accountability is just opposition research with a civic coat of paint.
Data before claims
Every post, reel, and dossier we publish is traceable to a verified entry in the grievance database — pin code, location, duration, citizen quote. We don't publish what we can't source. The map is only as credible as its sourcing discipline.
Open books, always
We publish quarterly transparency reports covering every rupee received and spent. The grievance database is publicly accessible. There is no private layer to this project that contradicts the public one.
HAP is a platform, not a closed team.
HAP is built to grow through contributors — field researchers, journalists, student volunteers, and district correspondents across HP. If you're based in a district we haven't fully covered, we especially want to hear from you.
Report from your ward
Have a broken streetlight, a collapsed drain, or a dry handpump? Submit your ward, pin code, and a photo — it goes directly onto the public map. No login, no app, no email draft.
Log your report (60 sec, no login)Verify, map, and distribute
Field researchers, district correspondents, and media partners do the work that turns raw grievance data into public pressure. No experience required — just a phone, a location, and a willingness to document what's broken.
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