New Delhi (NVI): A viral post doing rounds on social media claims that the Indian Railways has changed the name of Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway Station to “Maharana Pratap Expression”.
Refuting such claims on social media, the fact check wing of the Government’s Press Information Bureau said that the claim is fake and Indian Railways has not taken any such decision.
PIB wrote in a tweet in Hindi, “Claim: In a viral post it is being claimed that the Indian Railways has changed the name of Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway Station to “Maharana Pratap Expression”.
#PIBFactCheck : This claim is #Fake. @RailMinIndia has not taken any such decision.”
The viral message read, “Indian Railways has changed the name of Hazrat Nizamuddin station to Maharana Pratap Expression.”
दावा: सोशल मीडिया पर #वायरल हो रहे एक पोस्ट मे दावा किया जा रहा है कि भारतीय रेलवे ने हज़रत निज़ामुद्दीन रेलवे स्टेशन का नाम बदलकर अब "महाराणा प्रताप एक्सप्रेशन" कर दिया है।#PIBFactCheck: यह दावा #फर्जी है। @RailMinIndia ने ऐसा कोई निर्णय नहीं लिया है। pic.twitter.com/xFz7Gysqmf
— PIB Fact Check (@PIBFactCheck) December 2, 2020
The Press Information Bureau launched this fact-checking arm in December 2019, to curb misinformation and fake news prevalent on the internet. It claimed that its objective was “to identify misinformation related to government’s policies and schemes that are circulating on various social media platforms”.
-CHK
