Fact Check: Viral Clip’s Claim That Indian Railways Platforms Being Upgraded Under Modi Govt Is Misleading

A viral picture showing a before and after comparison between the mode of cleaning Indian Railways platforms is doing the rounds on social media. According to the image, the platforms were manually cleaned by workers earlier, whereas now there are modern cleaning machines to make the job easier. Users sharing the image claim that the latter was introduced under the Modi government. 

A Facebook user posted the viral picture with a caption:  Indian Railways Before After This is Acche din

You can check the post here.

FACT CHECK

NewsMobile fact-checked the viral picture, and found it to be misleading.

To check the authenticity of the viral picture, we ran a Reverse Image Search for both images separately.

Image 1:

A British stock photography website — Alamy — had published a picture, dated May 11, 2020, that matches the viral image. The description informs that it is from Howrah Junction railway station after India announced a limited re-opening of its giant rail network beginning after a nearly seven-week lockdown.   

We found the same image on Livemint as well. 

Image 2:

A tweet by the Eastern Railway on their official handle, dated August 13, 2020, informs that it’s the intensive cleaning of station platform and track at Asansol on the occasion of the observance of ‘Swachhta Saptah’ from 10 to 16 August, 2020.

One of the images in the tweet matches with the second image proving that it is from 2020 as well. 

So, we can conclusively say that the viral picture is misleading.

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