“National project” is a classification created by statute in the Polavaram case. A budget sanction is a financial permission. A tender is a procurement step. Physical completion is a measured engineering result. Commissioning and reliable service require additional tests. These five ideas can occur years apart. A misleading MCQ may say “The 2014 Act completed Polavaram”; the Act declared its status and Union responsibility, but did not physically construct the works by its own force.

The same distinction applies to a proposed national institution in the Thirteenth Schedule. A law can require steps toward establishing it, but a campus may open in phases. When reporting progress, specify the component: headworks, spillway, canals, power house, R&R village or command-area distribution. An aggregate percentage without a denominator is hard to interpret. For AP Police candidates, the legal section number and river system are stable exam points, while completion dates and cost figures are current-affairs facts needing verification close to the exam.

Worked example: An annual report states that a spillway component is complete. That may be true without proving the entire national project is operational. Compare component-wise physical progress, financial claims, reservoir readiness, canal connectivity and rehabilitation. A police exam current-affairs question may supply a date; report only what the cited document verifies on that date, not an undated 'project completed' claim.

Active recall: Put classification, sanction, tender, completion and commissioning in a sensible sequence. Which of these does Section 90 itself establish?