“500 crore rupees are being spent on Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir while 51,000 government schools are being closed”
What FACTLY found
The Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir is a project of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) Bangalore. Construction of this temple was inaugurated in March 2014, with 300 crore rupees as the projected cost. Neither is this temple being built by the government of India nor is it being funded by the government. On the other hand, according to the Ministry of Education’s UDISE+ reports, more than 51,000 government schools were shut in 2018-2019. Factly noticed that the number of go...
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In short
This claim spread on social media around 27 October 2022. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 4 November 2022, 8 days later. Its rating was “MISLEADING”.
Where the claim appeared
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid02hmYsGDCzpd3R2h9LkV2TfLLWYk5BCu4q…
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