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Both @INCIndia and the English media ecosystem have come up with a new number - 20,000 crore to be spent on new Central Vista project in Delhi.
Sonia Gandhi even wrote this in her letter to the PM. Where did they get this number from? Let's see. https://www.opindia.com/2020/04/sonia-gandhi-congress-5-suggestion-pm-modi-fight-coronavirus-juvenile-petty/
Sonia Gandhi even wrote this in her letter to the PM. Where did they get this number from? Let's see. https://www.opindia.com/2020/04/sonia-gandhi-congress-5-suggestion-pm-modi-fight-coronavirus-juvenile-petty/
The number first appears in the report by The Print on 17th February. “The project…is estimated to cost around Rs 20,000 crore, ThePrint has learnt.”
From whom they have learnt? They don't tell us. https://www.opindia.com/2020/04/sonia-gandhi-congress-5-suggestion-pm-modi-fight-coronavirus-juvenile-petty/
From whom they have learnt? They don't tell us. https://www.opindia.com/2020/04/sonia-gandhi-congress-5-suggestion-pm-modi-fight-coronavirus-juvenile-petty/
The Print in their article on 23rd March– "Govt notifies land-use change for Rs 20,000-crore Delhi power corridor to revamp plan" backlink to their own 17th Feb article as proof that the project is costing 20,000 crore. https://www.opindia.com/2020/04/sonia-gandhi-congress-5-suggestion-pm-modi-fight-coronavirus-juvenile-petty/
Then The Wire, The Week, The Hindu, The @ShashiTharoor , The "activists" - all of them pick up this number and dish out articles, graphics, seminars etc to tell us that GoI is spending more on new buildings than on Corona. https://www.opindia.com/2020/04/sonia-gandhi-congress-5-suggestion-pm-modi-fight-coronavirus-juvenile-petty/
All of them confidently tell us that the govt has issued a gazette for "land use change for the 20,000 crore plan". You would think the Gazette has the number. The Gazette is linked in this article - challenge for you is to find it! https://www.opindia.com/2020/04/sonia-gandhi-congress-5-suggestion-pm-modi-fight-coronavirus-juvenile-petty/
You would think 20,000 crores is a big number so the Budget would have had it. Turns out Budget doesn't have it. Turns out not a single official doc exists for this. The Print started a lie. Sonia Gandhi wrote to the PM of India as if it were the truth. https://www.opindia.com/2020/04/sonia-gandhi-congress-5-suggestion-pm-modi-fight-coronavirus-juvenile-petty/
