“Government of India is going to provide 5 lakh rupees pension to widowed women under ‘PM Vidhva Mahila Samriddhi Yojana’”
Social media posts
Claim dated 5 Dec 2020.
FACTLY rated thisFALSE
What FACTLY found
No such scheme is found in the official website of the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India. Press Information of Bureau (PIB) through their tweet clarified that there is no such scheme by the name ‘PM Vidhva Mahila Samriddhi Yojana’ run by the Indian Government
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 5 December 2020. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 17 December 2020, 12 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
Where the claim appeared
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