No reduction in retirement age of Central Government employees, PIB Fact Check busts fake news

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Fact Check Unit of Press Information Bureau has today clarified in a tweet that Central Government is not mulling a reduction in retirement age of Central Government employees. The tweet was a response to an article printed on a web portal which claimed that the Government of India is likely to reduce the retirement age to 50.

Claim: A web news portal claims Centre is likely to reduce retirement age of Central Government employees to 50 In #Coronavirus Crisis#PIBFactCheck: The claim made within the report is false. Centre is neither planning nor discussing any such move#COVID19 #IndiaFightsCorona pic.twitter.com/d9jaWnUwxs

— PIB Fact Check (@PIBFactCheck) April 26, 2020

In another tweet PIB Fact Check today busted a fake news doing the rounds on WhatsApp that claimed Government is going to bring an Act which will require all salaried persons to deposit 18%. The tweet clarified that Government is considering introduction of no such law. The tweet also advised people not to forward unverified information.

A fact check was performed by PIB Assam about a news published in Manipur claiming the District Hospital in Tamenglong was suffering from a lack of infrastructure and equipment amidst the coronavirus crisis. The State Health Department had earlier rebutted the claim made in the article.

Claim: WhatsApp forward claims Government is going to bring in Act to have 18% income deposited by all tax payers #PIBFactCheck: No such move being discussed by the Government. This is a figment of imagination aimed at scaremongering. Please do not forward any such #FakeNews pic.twitter.com/z9H90uXG7n

— PIB Fact Check (@PIBFactCheck) April 26, 2020

A fact check was performed by PIB Assam about a news published in Manipur claiming the District Hospital in Tamenglong was suffering from a lack of infrastructure and equipment amidst the coronavirus crisis. The State Health Department had earlier rebutted the claim made in the article.

#PIBFactCheck
Claim: Lack of infrastructure, equipment in Tamenglong dist. hospital amid #COVID19 pandemic#FactCheck: #FakeNews
Tamenglong Dist. Admin has sufficient medical equipments & quarantine facility to combat #COVID19https://t.co/ZTOSRlspDD@ImphalTimes @PIBFactCheck pic.twitter.com/1dWge4K6eh

— PIB in Assam (@PIB_Guwahati) April 25, 2020

 

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