FACTCHECKER.IN IS INDIA'S FIRST DEDICATED FACT CHECKFACT CHECKMODI’S REPORT CARDCONSTITUENCY CHECKFACTS: MODI-FIEDPROTEST MONITOR Fact Check. Data Proves Uttarakhand Top Cops Wrong, Kumbh Was a 'Super Spreader'. Nidhi Jacob 4 Jun 2021 2:24 PM GMT. Fact Check. FactChecker Is Calling Up COVID-19 Helplines. Factchecker Team 4 Jun 2021 11:11 AM GMT. Fact Check. Delhi BJP Chief's Claims On Capital's Death Rate Untrue. Nidhi Jacob 2 Jun 2021 1:35 PM GMT. FACTCHECKING PM MODI’S CLAIMS ON SETTING UP NEW IITS, IIMS During his address, the Prime Minister made a number of claims highlighting the infrastructural growth of higher education institutions such as IITs, IIMs, AIIMS and IIITs across the country. Claim: “There were only 16 IIT’s till 2014. In the last six years we have opened at least one IIT on average every year - one in Dharwad

in Karnataka.”.

INDIA'S FIRE PREPAREDNESS: A FACTCHECK Mumbai: As India deals with another fire tragedy, in which 40 people were killed at a paper factory in a residential area on Delhi’s Rani Jhansi road on December 8, 2019, an analysis of government data shows that emergency fire services have a 90% shortage of staff, a 78% shortage of fire fighting equipment or vehicles, and a 61% shortage of fire stations, as against a 2012 requirement. 35 AIRPORTS BUILT OVER LAST 4 YEARS: MODI. FACT: 7 MADE Pakyong: PM Modi addresses at the inauguration of Sikkim's first airport. Mumbai: “There are now 100 airports in India out of which 35 were built in the last four years,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on September 24, 2018 at the inauguration of Sikkim’s first airport in Pakyong. “Since Independence to 2014, over 67 years, there were 65 airports. i.e an average of one airport per FAMILY PROBLEMS, ILLNESS MAJOR CAUSES FOR SUICIDE Poverty, property dispute and physical abuse (rape,etc) reported a fall of 18.5%, 8% and 4%, respectively. The ratio is skewed towards men as there were 248 male suicides every day in India. The overall male:female ratio of suicide victims was 67:33. Maharashtra reported the maximum suicide deaths at 16,622 followed by Tamil Nadu (16,601 INDIA TO ELIMINATE MANUAL CLEANING OF SEWERS, SAYS MIN Mumbai: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the government would employ technology for cleaning sewer systems and septic tanks and eliminate the need for manual cleaning both through technology and legislation, in her budget speech on February 1, 2020. But, even though a law to ban manual cleaning of sewers was passed in 1993, 376 sanitation workers have died in the five years PUNJAB, TAMIL NADU, HARYANA HAVE HIGHEST BURDEN OF HEART Ischemic heart disease--where blood supply to the heart is restricted--is the leading cause of death in India, causing 17.8% deaths in 2016, and the disease burden has increased 104% since 1990, according to a new national study.. The report, ‘India: Health of the Nation’s States, the India state level disease burden initiative’ also published in the medical journal Lancet, is the

first

MINISTER SMRITI IRANI CLAIMS SUCCESS ON COOKING GAS Mumbai: “More than 32 lakh mothers in Jharkhand alone have received a gas cylinder free of cost under the Ujjwala Yojana.All their families too benefited from having smoke-free kitchens in their midst,” Smriti Irani, Union Minister for Minister of Women and Child Development, said at an election rally in Kanke on December 8, 2019. She was campaigning for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP

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Over five years to 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made at least 43 false or misleading claims. These include claims on issues such as economic growth during the current and previous governments, this government's achievements on key issues such as job creation, financial inclusion, social security and benefits transfer, as well as the current government's flagship programmes such as MORE FARMER SUICIDES AFTER RS 60,000CR UPA FARM LOAN There were more farmer suicides after the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) waived Rs 60,000 crore ($13 billion) in farm loans in 2008, minister of state for agriculture Purushottam Rupala claimed in the Rajya Sabha (upper house of Parliament) on July 25, 2017.. Data on farmer suicides from the National Crime Records Bureau prove Rupala is right. FACTCHECKER.IN IS INDIA'S FIRST DEDICATED FACT CHECKFACT CHECKMODI’S REPORT CARDCONSTITUENCY CHECKFACTS: MODI-FIEDPROTEST MONITOR Fact Check. Data Proves Uttarakhand Top Cops Wrong, Kumbh Was a 'Super Spreader'. Nidhi Jacob 4 Jun 2021 2:24 PM GMT. Fact Check. FactChecker Is Calling Up COVID-19 Helplines. Factchecker Team 4 Jun 2021 11:11 AM GMT. Fact Check. Delhi BJP Chief's Claims On Capital's Death Rate Untrue. Nidhi Jacob 2 Jun 2021 1:35 PM GMT. FACTCHECKING PM MODI’S CLAIMS ON SETTING UP NEW IITS, IIMS During his address, the Prime Minister made a number of claims highlighting the infrastructural growth of higher education institutions such as IITs, IIMs, AIIMS and IIITs across the country. Claim: “There were only 16 IIT’s till 2014. In the last six years we have opened at least one IIT on average every year - one in Dharwad

in Karnataka.”.

INDIA'S FIRE PREPAREDNESS: A FACTCHECK Mumbai: As India deals with another fire tragedy, in which 40 people were killed at a paper factory in a residential area on Delhi’s Rani Jhansi road on December 8, 2019, an analysis of government data shows that emergency fire services have a 90% shortage of staff, a 78% shortage of fire fighting equipment or vehicles, and a 61% shortage of fire stations, as against a 2012 requirement. 35 AIRPORTS BUILT OVER LAST 4 YEARS: MODI. FACT: 7 MADE Pakyong: PM Modi addresses at the inauguration of Sikkim's first airport. Mumbai: “There are now 100 airports in India out of which 35 were built in the last four years,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on September 24, 2018 at the inauguration of Sikkim’s first airport in Pakyong. “Since Independence to 2014, over 67 years, there were 65 airports. i.e an average of one airport per FAMILY PROBLEMS, ILLNESS MAJOR CAUSES FOR SUICIDE Poverty, property dispute and physical abuse (rape,etc) reported a fall of 18.5%, 8% and 4%, respectively. The ratio is skewed towards men as there were 248 male suicides every day in India. The overall male:female ratio of suicide victims was 67:33. Maharashtra reported the maximum suicide deaths at 16,622 followed by Tamil Nadu (16,601 INDIA TO ELIMINATE MANUAL CLEANING OF SEWERS, SAYS MIN Mumbai: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the government would employ technology for cleaning sewer systems and septic tanks and eliminate the need for manual cleaning both through technology and legislation, in her budget speech on February 1, 2020. But, even though a law to ban manual cleaning of sewers was passed in 1993, 376 sanitation workers have died in the five years PUNJAB, TAMIL NADU, HARYANA HAVE HIGHEST BURDEN OF HEART Ischemic heart disease--where blood supply to the heart is restricted--is the leading cause of death in India, causing 17.8% deaths in 2016, and the disease burden has increased 104% since 1990, according to a new national study.. The report, ‘India: Health of the Nation’s States, the India state level disease burden initiative’ also published in the medical journal Lancet, is the

first

MINISTER SMRITI IRANI CLAIMS SUCCESS ON COOKING GAS Mumbai: “More than 32 lakh mothers in Jharkhand alone have received a gas cylinder free of cost under the Ujjwala Yojana.All their families too benefited from having smoke-free kitchens in their midst,” Smriti Irani, Union Minister for Minister of Women and Child Development, said at an election rally in Kanke on December 8, 2019. She was campaigning for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP

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Over five years to 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made at least 43 false or misleading claims. These include claims on issues such as economic growth during the current and previous governments, this government's achievements on key issues such as job creation, financial inclusion, social security and benefits transfer, as well as the current government's flagship programmes such as MORE FARMER SUICIDES AFTER RS 60,000CR UPA FARM LOAN There were more farmer suicides after the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) waived Rs 60,000 crore ($13 billion) in farm loans in 2008, minister of state for agriculture Purushottam Rupala claimed in the Rajya Sabha (upper house of Parliament) on July 25, 2017.. Data on farmer suicides from the National Crime Records Bureau prove Rupala is right. IS RURAL INDIA 100% OPEN DEFECATION FREE? A FACTCHECK A report by Rice Institute, which conducted two surveys in 2014 and 2018 in rural Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh, said that 44% continued to defecate in the open. This was an improvement since 2014 when 70% of those surveyed practised open defecation. This reduction was largely due to the construction of new toilets - nearly six in 10 households that did not own a PROTEST MONITOR DATABASE Protest Monitor is FactChecker.in’s database of protests for and against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the proposed countrywide application of National Register of Citizens (NRC). It follows considerable feedback that the media is not sufficiently documenting pro-CAA protests. 43 MODI CLAIMS THAT ARE NOT TRUE, OVER 5 YEARS At least major 43 claims made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi over five years to 2019 are not true, according to a FactChecker analysis.These include claims on issues such as economic growth during the current and previous governments, this government’s achievements on key issues such as job creation, financial inclusion, social security and benefits transfer, as well as the current IN 2030, 39% OF INDIA'S POPULATION WILL BE URBAN India will have two of the world's biggest cities in the world by population in 2030, in which 1.2% of the world's urban population of 5.06 billion will reside, according to a press release by the World Water Council, an international multi-stakeholder platform that works on water-related issues, and data from the United Nations.. Delhi will have 36.1 million people in 2030--more than the PROTEST MONITOR DATABASE Protest Monitor is FactChecker.in’s database of protests for and against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the proposed countrywide application of National Register of Citizens (NRC). It follows considerable feedback that the media is not sufficiently documenting pro-CAA protests MODI'S 2022 RENEWABLE ENERGY TARGET REQUIRES FOUR TIMES AS “We have a target for renewable energy generation of 175 Gigawatt by 2022. We have got off to a good start with nearly 12 GW likely to be installed by 2016, more than three times the current capacity,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said during the inauguration of the Indian Pavillion at COP21, Paris.. Of the target capacity, 100 GW would be from solar power, 60 GW from wind, 10 GW from NO MAJOR BOMB BLASTS/TERROR ATTACKS SINCE 2014: MODI A bomb blast was reported in a Bhopal-Ujjain passenger train on March 7, 2017, in which 11 persons were injured, the government informed parliament on March 29, 2017. The National Investigation Agency filed a chargesheet against four men said to be associated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), India Today reported on August 8, 2017. As many as 174 IED blasts took place in India CAN INDIAN MUSLIMS OUTNUMBER HINDUS? UNLIKELY The government has added to the ferment by releasing almost all data based on Census 2011, except the data on population based on religion. FactChecker reviewed available data and ran some projections to conclude that while the proportion of Muslims is likely to rise, there is little to no chance of India having more Muslims than Hindus.. At the heart of the Hindu right-wing's fears is the FROM PRODUCTION TO CONSUMPTION: A FAIRER MEASURE OF Bengaluru: If greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions were calculated on the basis of consumption in a country, rather than production, the US's global emissions in 2016 would increase by 7.5% (0.4 billion tonnes) to 5.71 billion tonnes, while India’s share would reduce by 7.1% (0.28 billion tonnes) to 2.21 billion tonnes, according to research by

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20 NEW AIIMS COMING UP: BJP. FACT: 11 GET 3% FUNDING Five are yet to receive cabinet approval. Only 3% of sanctioned funds for 11 new AIIMS have been released, according to a FactChecker analysis. Up to 60% of faculty positions at the six working AIIMS are also vacant, according to a reply given by JP Nadda, the minister for health and family welfare, to a Lok Sabha question in February 2018. FACTCHECKER.IN IS INDIA'S FIRST DEDICATED FACT CHECKFACT CHECKMODI’S REPORT CARDCONSTITUENCY CHECKFACTS: MODI-FIEDPROTEST MONITOR Fact Check. Data Proves Uttarakhand Top Cops Wrong, Kumbh Was a 'Super Spreader'. Nidhi Jacob 4 Jun 2021 2:24 PM GMT. Fact Check. FactChecker Is Calling Up COVID-19 Helplines. Factchecker Team 4 Jun 2021 11:11 AM GMT. Fact Check. Delhi BJP Chief's Claims On Capital's Death Rate Untrue. Nidhi Jacob 2 Jun 2021 1:35 PM GMT. FACTCHECKING PM MODI’S CLAIMS ON SETTING UP NEW IITS, IIMS During his address, the Prime Minister made a number of claims highlighting the infrastructural growth of higher education institutions such as IITs, IIMs, AIIMS and IIITs across the country. Claim: “There were only 16 IIT’s till 2014. In the last six years we have opened at least one IIT on average every year - one in Dharwad

in Karnataka.”.

FAMILY PROBLEMS, ILLNESS MAJOR CAUSES FOR SUICIDE Poverty, property dispute and physical abuse (rape,etc) reported a fall of 18.5%, 8% and 4%, respectively. The ratio is skewed towards men as there were 248 male suicides every day in India. The overall male:female ratio of suicide victims was 67:33. Maharashtra reported the maximum suicide deaths at 16,622 followed by Tamil Nadu (16,601 35 AIRPORTS BUILT OVER LAST 4 YEARS: MODI. FACT: 7 MADE Pakyong: PM Modi addresses at the inauguration of Sikkim's first airport. Mumbai: “There are now 100 airports in India out of which 35 were built in the last four years,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on September 24, 2018 at the inauguration of Sikkim’s first airport in Pakyong. “Since Independence to 2014, over 67 years, there were 65 airports. i.e an average of one airport per 43 MODI CLAIMS THAT ARE NOT TRUE, OVER 5 YEARS At least major 43 claims made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi over five years to 2019 are not true, according to a FactChecker analysis.These include claims on issues such as economic growth during the current and previous governments, this government’s achievements on key issues such as job creation, financial inclusion, social security and benefits transfer, as well as the current INDIA TO ELIMINATE MANUAL CLEANING OF SEWERS, SAYS MIN Mumbai: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the government would employ technology for cleaning sewer systems and septic tanks and eliminate the need for manual cleaning both through technology and legislation, in her budget speech on February 1, 2020. But, even though a law to ban manual cleaning of sewers was passed in 1993, 376 sanitation workers have died in the five years PUNJAB, TAMIL NADU, HARYANA HAVE HIGHEST BURDEN OF HEART Ischemic heart disease--where blood supply to the heart is restricted--is the leading cause of death in India, causing 17.8% deaths in 2016, and the disease burden has increased 104% since 1990, according to a new national study.. The report, ‘India: Health of the Nation’s States, the India state level disease burden initiative’ also published in the medical journal Lancet, is the

first

FACTCHECKER.IN IS INDIA'S FIRST DEDICATED FACT CHECKFACT CHECKMODI’S REPORT CARDCONSTITUENCY CHECKFACTS: MODI-FIEDPROTEST MONITOR Fact Check. Data Proves Uttarakhand Top Cops Wrong, Kumbh Was a 'Super Spreader'. Nidhi Jacob 4 Jun 2021 2:24 PM GMT. Fact Check. FactChecker Is Calling Up COVID-19 Helplines. Factchecker Team 4 Jun 2021 11:11 AM GMT. Fact Check. Delhi BJP Chief's Claims On Capital's Death Rate Untrue. Nidhi Jacob 2 Jun 2021 1:35 PM GMT. FACTCHECKING PM MODI’S CLAIMS ON SETTING UP NEW IITS, IIMS During his address, the Prime Minister made a number of claims highlighting the infrastructural growth of higher education institutions such as IITs, IIMs, AIIMS and IIITs across the country. Claim: “There were only 16 IIT’s till 2014. In the last six years we have opened at least one IIT on average every year - one in Dharwad

in Karnataka.”.

FAMILY PROBLEMS, ILLNESS MAJOR CAUSES FOR SUICIDE Poverty, property dispute and physical abuse (rape,etc) reported a fall of 18.5%, 8% and 4%, respectively. The ratio is skewed towards men as there were 248 male suicides every day in India. The overall male:female ratio of suicide victims was 67:33. Maharashtra reported the maximum suicide deaths at 16,622 followed by Tamil Nadu (16,601 35 AIRPORTS BUILT OVER LAST 4 YEARS: MODI. FACT: 7 MADE Pakyong: PM Modi addresses at the inauguration of Sikkim's first airport. Mumbai: “There are now 100 airports in India out of which 35 were built in the last four years,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on September 24, 2018 at the inauguration of Sikkim’s first airport in Pakyong. “Since Independence to 2014, over 67 years, there were 65 airports. i.e an average of one airport per 43 MODI CLAIMS THAT ARE NOT TRUE, OVER 5 YEARS At least major 43 claims made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi over five years to 2019 are not true, according to a FactChecker analysis.These include claims on issues such as economic growth during the current and previous governments, this government’s achievements on key issues such as job creation, financial inclusion, social security and benefits transfer, as well as the current INDIA TO ELIMINATE MANUAL CLEANING OF SEWERS, SAYS MIN Mumbai: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the government would employ technology for cleaning sewer systems and septic tanks and eliminate the need for manual cleaning both through technology and legislation, in her budget speech on February 1, 2020. But, even though a law to ban manual cleaning of sewers was passed in 1993, 376 sanitation workers have died in the five years PUNJAB, TAMIL NADU, HARYANA HAVE HIGHEST BURDEN OF HEART Ischemic heart disease--where blood supply to the heart is restricted--is the leading cause of death in India, causing 17.8% deaths in 2016, and the disease burden has increased 104% since 1990, according to a new national study.. The report, ‘India: Health of the Nation’s States, the India state level disease burden initiative’ also published in the medical journal Lancet, is the

first

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IS RURAL INDIA 100% OPEN DEFECATION FREE? A FACTCHECK A report by Rice Institute, which conducted two surveys in 2014 and 2018 in rural Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh, said that 44% continued to defecate in the open. This was an improvement since 2014 when 70% of those surveyed practised open defecation. This reduction was largely due to the construction of new toilets - nearly six in 10 households that did not own a INDIA'S FIRE PREPAREDNESS: A FACTCHECK Mumbai: As India deals with another fire tragedy, in which 40 people were killed at a paper factory in a residential area on Delhi’s Rani Jhansi road on December 8, 2019, an analysis of government data shows that emergency fire services have a 90% shortage of staff, a 78% shortage of fire fighting equipment or vehicles, and a 61% shortage of fire stations, as against a 2012 requirement.

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DEATH TOLL OF TEACHERS ON UP POLL DUTY: 1,621 AND COUNTING While a list dated May 17, compiled by RSMUP, pegs the number of deaths at 1,205, another list, dated May 16, compiled by UPPSS, claims it's 1,621. "The numbers of deaths are expected to add up further in the upcoming days. Many teachers with chronic heart ailments have died owing to stress and panic of attending ballot count duties amid the pandemic," said Dinesh Chandra Sharma, UPSM and MODI'S 2022 RENEWABLE ENERGY TARGET REQUIRES FOUR TIMES AS “We have a target for renewable energy generation of 175 Gigawatt by 2022. We have got off to a good start with nearly 12 GW likely to be installed by 2016, more than three times the current capacity,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said during the inauguration of the Indian Pavillion at COP21, Paris.. Of the target capacity, 100 GW would be from solar power, 60 GW from wind, 10 GW from 20 NEW AIIMS COMING UP: BJP. FACT: 11 GET 3% FUNDING "text-align: justify;">New Delhi: On completing four years in the government, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), released a slew of infographics showcasing its campaigns for “transforming India”. One of the claims it made was the establishment of two new All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Jharkhand and Gujarat in 2017-18 and the setting up of 20 new “AIIMS MINISTER SMRITI IRANI CLAIMS SUCCESS ON COOKING GAS Mumbai: “More than 32 lakh mothers in Jharkhand alone have received a gas cylinder free of cost under the Ujjwala Yojana.All their families too benefited from having smoke-free kitchens in their midst,” Smriti Irani, Union Minister for Minister of Women and Child Development, said at an election rally in Kanke on December 8, 2019. She was campaigning for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP FACTCHECKER.IN IS INDIA'S FIRST DEDICATED FACT CHECKFACT CHECKMODI’S REPORT CARDCONSTITUENCY CHECKFACTS: MODI-FIEDPROTEST MONITORBECOME A FACT CHECKERCHECKING THE FACT CHECKERSFACT CHECKING THE FACT CHECKERSMSN FACT CHECKERPOLITICAL FACT CHECKER FactChecker.in is India's first dedicated Fact Check initiative. FACTCHECKING PM MODI’S CLAIMS ON SETTING UP NEW IITS, IIMS During his address, the Prime Minister made a number of claims highlighting the infrastructural growth of higher education institutions such as IITs, IIMs, AIIMS and IIITs across the country. Claim: “There were only 16 IIT’s till 2014. In the last six years we have opened at least one IIT on average every year - one in Dharwad

in Karnataka.”.

INDIA'S FIRE PREPAREDNESS: A FACTCHECK Mumbai: As India deals with another fire tragedy, in which 40 people were killed at a paper factory in a residential area on Delhi’s Rani Jhansi road on December 8, 2019, an analysis of government data shows that emergency fire services have a 90% shortage of staff, a 78% shortage of fire fighting equipment or vehicles, and a 61% shortage of fire stations, as against a 2012 requirement. 35 AIRPORTS BUILT OVER LAST 4 YEARS: MODI. FACT: 7 MADE Pakyong: PM Modi addresses at the inauguration of Sikkim's first airport. Mumbai: “There are now 100 airports in India out of which 35 were built in the last four years,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on September 24, 2018 at the inauguration of Sikkim’s first airport in Pakyong. “Since Independence to 2014, over 67 years, there were 65 airports. i.e an average of one airport per 43 MODI CLAIMS THAT ARE NOT TRUE, OVER 5 YEARS At least major 43 claims made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi over five years to 2019 are not true, according to a FactChecker analysis.These include claims on issues such as economic growth during the current and previous governments, this government’s achievements on key issues such as job creation, financial inclusion, social security and benefits transfer, as well as the current FAMILY PROBLEMS, ILLNESS MAJOR CAUSES FOR SUICIDE Poverty, property dispute and physical abuse (rape,etc) reported a fall of 18.5%, 8% and 4%, respectively. The ratio is skewed towards men as there were 248 male suicides every day in India. The overall male:female ratio of suicide victims was 67:33. Maharashtra reported the maximum suicide deaths at 16,622 followed by Tamil Nadu (16,601 100 MILLION JOBS CREATED: BJP MINISTER. DATA SHOW JOB LOSSES Bengaluru: As the first phase of polling of the 17th Lok Sabha elections got under way on April 11, 2019, Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan claimed the incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government created 100 million jobs, contrary to leaked data from the National Sample Survey Office that showed unemployment during 2017-18 at a 45-year high of 6.1%. MINISTER SMRITI IRANI CLAIMS SUCCESS ON COOKING GAS Mumbai: “More than 32 lakh mothers in Jharkhand alone have received a gas cylinder free of cost under the Ujjwala Yojana.All their families too benefited from having smoke-free kitchens in their midst,” Smriti Irani, Union Minister for Minister of Women and Child Development, said at an election rally in Kanke on December 8, 2019. She was campaigning for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP MORE FARMER SUICIDES AFTER RS 60,000CR UPA FARM LOAN There were more farmer suicides after the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) waived Rs 60,000 crore ($13 billion) in farm loans in 2008, minister of state for agriculture Purushottam Rupala claimed in the Rajya Sabha (upper house of Parliament) on July 25, 2017.. Data on farmer suicides from the National Crime Records Bureau prove Rupala is right.

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Over five years to 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made at least 43 false or misleading claims. These include claims on issues such as economic growth during the current and previous governments, this government's achievements on key issues such as job creation, financial inclusion, social security and benefits transfer, as well as the current government's flagship programmes such as FACTCHECKER.IN IS INDIA'S FIRST DEDICATED FACT CHECKFACT CHECKMODI’S REPORT CARDCONSTITUENCY CHECKFACTS: MODI-FIEDPROTEST MONITORBECOME A FACT CHECKERCHECKING THE FACT CHECKERSFACT CHECKING THE FACT CHECKERSMSN FACT CHECKERPOLITICAL FACT CHECKER FactChecker.in is India's first dedicated Fact Check initiative. FACTCHECKING PM MODI’S CLAIMS ON SETTING UP NEW IITS, IIMS During his address, the Prime Minister made a number of claims highlighting the infrastructural growth of higher education institutions such as IITs, IIMs, AIIMS and IIITs across the country. Claim: “There were only 16 IIT’s till 2014. In the last six years we have opened at least one IIT on average every year - one in Dharwad

in Karnataka.”.

INDIA'S FIRE PREPAREDNESS: A FACTCHECK Mumbai: As India deals with another fire tragedy, in which 40 people were killed at a paper factory in a residential area on Delhi’s Rani Jhansi road on December 8, 2019, an analysis of government data shows that emergency fire services have a 90% shortage of staff, a 78% shortage of fire fighting equipment or vehicles, and a 61% shortage of fire stations, as against a 2012 requirement. 35 AIRPORTS BUILT OVER LAST 4 YEARS: MODI. FACT: 7 MADE Pakyong: PM Modi addresses at the inauguration of Sikkim's first airport. Mumbai: “There are now 100 airports in India out of which 35 were built in the last four years,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on September 24, 2018 at the inauguration of Sikkim’s first airport in Pakyong. “Since Independence to 2014, over 67 years, there were 65 airports. i.e an average of one airport per 43 MODI CLAIMS THAT ARE NOT TRUE, OVER 5 YEARS At least major 43 claims made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi over five years to 2019 are not true, according to a FactChecker analysis.These include claims on issues such as economic growth during the current and previous governments, this government’s achievements on key issues such as job creation, financial inclusion, social security and benefits transfer, as well as the current FAMILY PROBLEMS, ILLNESS MAJOR CAUSES FOR SUICIDE Poverty, property dispute and physical abuse (rape,etc) reported a fall of 18.5%, 8% and 4%, respectively. The ratio is skewed towards men as there were 248 male suicides every day in India. The overall male:female ratio of suicide victims was 67:33. Maharashtra reported the maximum suicide deaths at 16,622 followed by Tamil Nadu (16,601 100 MILLION JOBS CREATED: BJP MINISTER. DATA SHOW JOB LOSSES Bengaluru: As the first phase of polling of the 17th Lok Sabha elections got under way on April 11, 2019, Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan claimed the incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government created 100 million jobs, contrary to leaked data from the National Sample Survey Office that showed unemployment during 2017-18 at a 45-year high of 6.1%. MINISTER SMRITI IRANI CLAIMS SUCCESS ON COOKING GAS Mumbai: “More than 32 lakh mothers in Jharkhand alone have received a gas cylinder free of cost under the Ujjwala Yojana.All their families too benefited from having smoke-free kitchens in their midst,” Smriti Irani, Union Minister for Minister of Women and Child Development, said at an election rally in Kanke on December 8, 2019. She was campaigning for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP MORE FARMER SUICIDES AFTER RS 60,000CR UPA FARM LOAN There were more farmer suicides after the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) waived Rs 60,000 crore ($13 billion) in farm loans in 2008, minister of state for agriculture Purushottam Rupala claimed in the Rajya Sabha (upper house of Parliament) on July 25, 2017.. Data on farmer suicides from the National Crime Records Bureau prove Rupala is right.

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Over five years to 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made at least 43 false or misleading claims. These include claims on issues such as economic growth during the current and previous governments, this government's achievements on key issues such as job creation, financial inclusion, social security and benefits transfer, as well as the current government's flagship programmes such as ABOUT US - FACTCHECKER About Us. FactChecker.in is India’s first dedicated Fact Check initiative. Since early 2013, we have been scrutinizing and researching for veracity and context, statements made by individuals in public life. As well as picking up on issues where we feel there is

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While various surveys document the performance of villages, block, districts and states, there are no official surveys at the Lok Sabha constituency level. This is an attempt to fill this gap. Besides providing an overall picture, the interactive portal can also be of

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READ ALL LATEST UPDATES ON AND ABOUT PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE The communications adviser to the Prime Minister's Office, put out a tweet on 9th April, which claimed that "India is the second fastest

growing

INDIA TO ELIMINATE MANUAL CLEANING OF SEWERS, SAYS MIN Mumbai: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the government would employ technology for cleaning sewer systems and septic tanks and eliminate the need for manual cleaning both through technology and legislation, in her budget speech on February 1, 2020. But, even though a law to ban manual cleaning of sewers was passed in 1993, 376 sanitation workers have died in the five years PROTEST MONITOR DATABASE Protest Monitor is FactChecker.in’s database of protests for and against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the proposed countrywide application of National Register of Citizens (NRC). It follows considerable feedback that the media is not sufficiently documenting pro-CAA protests

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