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“A new venture capital fund for OBCs is to be launched with an initial corpus of 200 crore rupees, under the Stand-up India scheme”
Social media posts Claim dated 1 May 2019.
FACTLY rated thisUNVERIFIED

What FACTLY found

A new venture capital fund for OBCs was announced in the 2018-19 budget, but no allocation was made. Budget allocations were made in the 2019-20 budget for such a fund, but there is no evidence of the fund being launched

Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.

In short

This claim spread on social media around 1 May 2019. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 1 May 2019. Its rating was “UNVERIFIED”.

Where the claim appeared

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This check was done by FACTLY, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.