A claim is being made on WhatsApp that the government is providing financial assistance of Rs 4,000 under the 'Corona Care Fund Scheme'. The Press Information Bureau (PIB) has termed this claim absolutely fake. This comes in the background of financial troubles in the country. The GDP has dipped by 7.3 percent in the last fiscal, with the last quarter clocking a growth of just 1.6 percent even after most sectors had been opened up.
In spite of all this, the Government of India has introduced a slew of measures to help citizens during the pandemic, especially the poor and the down-trodden. On June 7, PM Modi announced that his government will be providing 80 crore poor Indians free rations till Diwali. "Nobody should sleep hunger" PM Modi said today during a national address. In another nation address, he announced financial assistance to families which lost their earning members to COVID-19. In another fact check, earlier, a viral social media post made to look like a screenshot of a television channel claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced a nationwide lockdown from July 1 till July 31, also declaring the "beginning of the third wave". However, the PIB Fact Check was prompt enough to reject the claims and asked citizens to be wary of such viral posts in circulation.