Waterlogged, ‘kachcha’ road seen in front of a building of Dept. of Roads in India? Fact Check

Posted by: Gayathri S. March 9, 2024

A photo depicting waterlogged road is doing the rounds on social media with a claim that it was the scene at a building of the “Department of Roads”.

The tweet in Tamil translates into English as: “This is one of the achievements of BJP. ‘Department of Roads’ has no right to construct a road adjacent to ‘Road Transport Department’.”

When we searched further, we found that it was shared by several users on Twitter since March 3, 2024 as seen below:






Another user shared the same with a cpation that reads: “Department of roads. It happens only in India.”





Some users of X (formerly Twitter) have shared it tagging Indian Minister Nithin Gadkari of Union Road Transport and Highways as well.


FACT-CHECK


The Digiteye India team took it up for fact-checking. First, we checked for the logo of the Indian Transport ministry’s logo and found that the logo on the building was different.




Secondly, when we checked the image on Google Reverse Image Search, we found that the picture was also used in a March 4 report on the Nepali news website “Bizness News”.




Further search on X revealed that the same image was shared a day before by an X user Deependra Chaulagai, re-tweeted on March 4, 2024, a press release by the Kathmandu Road Division in Nepal. Its translation states that the building was briefly unused following the Nepal earthquake in 2015 and its renovation remains to be undertaken though it’s being used by the department of roads again.


Hence, the photo shows the Road Department compound in Kathmandu, pending repairs amid heavy rains, and not from India as claimed.


Claim: Waterlogged road in front of building of ‘Dept. of Roads’ shared, tagging Indian Union Transport Minister Nithin Gadkari.


Conclusion: False. Both the building and waterlogged road are in Nepal, not in India.


Rating: Misrepresentation — 





					
					
									

				     				
								
				
				 
			

		

		

		
				
		
				

				

			

			

		

		
				

			

				
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			Gayathri with more than 6 years of experience working with Microfinance Monitor and Global India News is our contributor covering fact-checks in areas from science, political, social to gender issues. She can be reached at gayathri@digiteye.in		

			

						
																																

		

				

		

		
			
	
		
				




	

		
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