New Delhi (NVI): A claim is being made on social media that Government of India is conducting a survey under National Fellowship Scheme for Schedule Caste students to ascertain the joining details of all the candidates selected through UGC NET exam.
Debunking such claims, the Fact Check Unit of the Press Information Bureau (PIB) clarified that the claim is fake and Indian Government is not conducting any such survey.
“Claim: A survey designed to ascertain the joining details of all the candidates selected through UGC NET exam under National Fellowship Scheme for Schedule Caste students.
#PIBFactCheck: This claim is #Fake. Government of India is not conducting any such survey,” PIB tweeted.
Claim: A survey designed to ascertain the joining details of all the candidates selected through UGC NET exam under National Fellowship Scheme for Schedule Caste students. #PIBFactCheck: This claim is #Fake. Government of India is not conducting any such survey. pic.twitter.com/DUFQE4ANGm
— PIB Fact Check (@PIBFactCheck) December 14, 2020
A mail was being circulated which read, “Dear Applicants under National Fellowship Scheme for Scheduled Caste students. Congratulations for selection under the scheme of Government of India. A survey has been designed to ascertain the joining details of all the selected candidates under the exam held by UGC NET recently.”
“The link of the Google survey is placed below and you are requested to fill the form and submit the information latest by 15 December, 2020,” the mail further read.
The PIB launched this fact-checking unit in December last year, to check such misinformation and viral fake news related to government’s policies and schemes that are circulating on social media platforms.
-CHK
