An image showing some school students sitting in the mud is being widely shared on social media, claiming that this is the situation of government schools in India.
The post is shared on Facebook with a caption in Hindi language: “ देखिए इस तस्वीर को, 8000करोड़ के जहाज में घूमने वाले प्रधानमंत्री के राज्य में दुनिया की सबसे ऊंची 3500 करोड़ की स्टैचू वाले देश में, सनातनी संस्कार शिक्षा आदर्श के घोष काल में..देश के,आपके अपने बच्चों के भविष्य का_ वर्तमान. विश्वगुरू गर्वित बदलते स्वच्छ भारत का..स्कूल. आपको ये नहीं देखना है..आंख,दिमाग बंद करके आपको बस मंदिर,मंदिर जपना है..?
(English translation: Look at this picture, in the state of the Prime Minister who travels in a ship worth Rs. 8000 crores, in the country with the world’s tallest statue worth Rs. 3500 crores, in the era of the glory of Sanatani Sanskar education ideal… the present of the future of the country and your own children. Vishwaguru is proud of a changing clean India..school. You don’t have to see this… you just have to chant temple, temple by closing your eyes and mind.)
Here’s the link to the above post.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the claim, and found it to be FALSE.
Doing a simple Reverse Image Search directed us to a June 10, 2015 tweet that carried the same viral image. The text in Urdu can be translated into English as: “Mian Sahib has been ruling Punjab for thirty years, and the girls are getting an education on the metro bus”
Searching further, we found the same image uploaded on a Pakistan-based website with the description that it is from a primary school for girls in Punjab, Pakistan.
In 2016, media activist and president of the Pakistan Supreme Court Press Association, Abdul Khiayum Siddiqui, had also tweeted the same image stating that it was from a school in Pakistan.
A school in Shujaabad District Multan pic.twitter.com/1QtW2VVXqh
— Abdul Qayyum Siddiqui (@QayyumReports) March 23, 2016
The same image was also tweeted in 2017 by a user stating that it was from Pakistan.
Thus, it is clear that the viral image has been on the internet since 2015, that too, it is from Pakistan, NOT India.
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