India Today Anti Fake News War Room (AFWA) found the allegation along with the photo to be misleading.
Mamata Banerjee
With elections in West Bengal around the corner, every political party and their supporters are eager to show their achievements and development projects to the electorate. A picture of a residential project circulating on social media alleging that the buildings for slum dwellers were built under one of Mamata Banerjee’s schemes.
The picture was shared with a Bengali subtitle that translates to: ‘Is it true? Does it really happen? Golf Green slum dwellers received keys to apartments developed according to Didi’s ‘Amar Bari’ (My House) scheme. Apartments for slum dwellers may be a dream, but it was made true by Mamata. ‘
The archived version of the post can be seen here.
India Today Anti Fake News War Room (AFWA) found the allegation along with the photo to be misleading. The government of Bengal has started a housing scheme for slum dwellers along Golf Club Road, adjacent to the Golf Green area in South Kolkata. But the photo used in the post is of a residential complex built by the government of Bangladesh for residents of slums in the city of Bazar of Cox.
AFWA investigation
Using reverse image search, we have the original image on a Bangladesh news website. This site uploaded the photo along with an article on July 23, 2020. According to the information on the website, the photo is a residential complex built by the government of Bangladesh in the city of Bazar of Cox.
The complex was built according to the Bangladeshi government’s Ashrayon Prakalpa scheme to rehabilitate slum dwellers from Jhau Bagan and Baliari areas west of Cox’s Bazar airport. The residents of the slums have been evicted to make way for the expansion of the airport project.
Various Bangladeshi media has published articles on this subject residential project with similar pictures.
To confirm the part of the Bengali government for slum dwellers, India Today contacted local correspondent Jyotirmoy Dutta. He arranged the original picture of the buildings built by the state government on Golf Club Road for slum dwellers.
Therefore, we can conclude that while the allegation of a residential project for slum dwellers in Kolkata is true, the picture used with it is of a similar plan used by the government of Bangladesh for displaced people.
(With input from Srijit Das)
ClaimPhoto of a residential project put together by the West Bengal government according to ‘Amar Bari’ (My House) scheme for slum dwellers in Kolkata.ClosureAlthough the Bengali government has launched such a plan, the picture is of a housing project in Bangladesh for the rehabilitation of displaced slum dwellers.
JHOOTH BOLE KAUVA KAATE
The number of crows determines the intensity of the lie.
- 1 Crow: Half true
- 2 crows: mostly lies
- 3 crows: absolutely false
