Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who visited Germany between June 26 and June 28, for the 48th G7 summit, made several claims regarding India’s developmental achievements in the past seven years.
PM Modi highlighted India’s growth story and mentioned various initiatives undertaken by the government with the aim to achieve the country’s development agenda. He lauded the contribution of the diaspora in promoting India’s “success story”.
While addressing them in Munich, the PM spoke of tremendous growth in various sectors like providing electricity, road connectivity, gas connections and toilet facilities. FactChecker shortlisted four quantifiable claims that had data available in the public domain and could be verified.
Prime Minister Modi claimed, “Today every village in India is open defecation free.”
Fact-check: False.
India was declared open defecation free by the Centre in October 2019, on its Integrated Management Information System of Swachh Bharat Mission Gramin.
However, a few reports show discrepancies between the government’s Swachh Bharat Mission data and other official reports.
The government has defined “open defecation free” as “the termination of faecal-oral transmission, defined by, 1) no visible faeces found in the environment/village and 2) every household as well as public/community institutions using safe technology option for disposal of faeces”.
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