NammaCivic
🛡️ Listing standards

How we keep listings trustworthy

Listings sit inside a civic app people rely on, so the bar is high. Here's exactly how a listing gets in, how location works, and how we keep out anything fake or harmful.

📍 Where your listing appears

  • Listings are tied to the areas they serve (localities / pincodes) and a category.
  • They surface to people browsing that category and, where relevant, that part of the city — so a Koramangala PG reaches people looking around Koramangala.
  • Featured listings get top placement in their category and a slot on the homepage strip.
  • Listings never appear on civic/emergency pages (helplines, fraud, reporting).

✅ How we verify legitimacy

Nothing is published until it passes all of this:

  1. 1. Automated screening on submission blocks prohibited content and flags suspicious phrasing.
  2. 2. Contact verification — we confirm a working phone (OTP) / email for the business.
  3. 3. Business proof — a GSTIN, Udyam (MSME) registration, shop & establishment licence, or equivalent, matched to the business name.
  4. 4. Manual review — a human checks the proof, category fit and claims before approval.
  5. 5. Only then does status become Verified ✓ and the listing goes live for the paid period.

🚫 What we don't allow

Submissions matching these are rejected automatically and never stored:

Agents/middlemen for government documents (khata, passport, licence) — against our mission
Anyone impersonating BBMP/BDA/GBA or claiming false 'government authorised' status
Fake/duplicate certificates, IDs or degrees
Predatory instant-loan / no-KYC cash schemes
Gambling, betting, matka
MLM, chain-marketing, 'guaranteed returns' schemes
Drugs, weapons, adult/illegal services
Misleading superlatives presented as fact ('govt approved', '100% guaranteed')

⚐ Spotted a bad listing?

Every live listing has a Report link. Reports raise a flag for review and a listing can be unpublished while we investigate. You can also contact us directly.

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