PIB Fact Check: The Modi government at the center keeps coming up with various schemes from time to time for the common and poor people of the country. Through these schemes, it provides various types of financial assistance to the poor, students and youth of the country. Recently, a message related to unemployment allowance is going viral on social media. This viral message is claiming that the government will soon start giving unemployment allowance to the youth. If someone sent you this viral message, know the truth of this message.
The PIB said in a tweet that the viral WhatsApp message was claiming that the government was giving an allowance of ₹ 6,000 per month to unemployed youth under the Prime Minister’s Unemployment Allowance Scheme. This message is fake. The Government of India is not running any such scheme. Please do not forward such messages.
a viral #Whatsapp It is being claimed in the message that under the Prime Minister’s unemployment allowance scheme, the government is giving an allowance of ₹ 6,000 every month to the unemployed youth. #PIBFactCheck
️ this message #bogus Is
️ Government of India is not running any such scheme
️ Please do not forward such messages pic.twitter.com/QMoIoQEUFs
— PIB Fact Check (@PIBFactCheck) July 15, 2022
Beware of fake messages
PIB said that everyone should be wary of such messages going viral on social media. PIB asked people not to forward such messages. By being misled by such messages, you put your personal information and money at risk.
The fact of the viral message can be checked
If you also get such a message, you can do a fact check to know its authenticity. You can check the fact through PIB. For this you have to go to the official link https://factcheck.pib.gov.in/. Apart from this you can also send the video to WhatsApp number +918799711259 or email: pibfactcheck@gmail.com.
