False Statistic · Medium confidence
FactChecker rated the claim false: a CAG audit and an RTI reply did not support crores of fake beneficiaries being removed, e.g. only 4% of 9.4 million deleted MGNREGA job cards were fake.
Test case in Suite A · score 0.00
English · ParaphrasedAadhaar has weeded out crores of fake beneficiaries from government schemes (paraphrase from FactChecker's list).
Paraphrased from news reports; not a verbatim quote.
- Speaker
- Narendra Modi
- Party
- BJP
- Office
- Prime Minister
- Venue
- Hindustan Times Leadership Summit, New Delhi
- Date
- 2017-11-30
- Topics
- governance, digital
- Researched by
- claude-sonnet
Transcript / text sources
Evidence
| Type | Publisher | Title | Date | Key figure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fact-check | FactChecker.in / BOOM | 9 of Prime Minister Modi's 16 claims on schemes true, 3 false | 2017-12-18 | Rated 9 true, 3 false, 2 partly true, 2 unclear across the 30 Nov 2017 HT Leadership Summit speech |
| CAG | CAG (as reported by FactChecker) | Auditor rejects government claims on LPG savings | 2017 | 74,000 consumer IDs linked to 37,000 Aadhaar numbers; 9.6 lakh ineligible consumers received Rs 49.21 crore |
| RTI | Ministry of Rural Development RTI reply (as reported by Hindustan Times) | Nearly a crore fake job cards struck off from MGNREGA | 2017 | Only 4% of 9.4 million deleted job cards were fake |
Analysis
FactChecker examined Modi's statement that Aadhaar weeded out crores of fake beneficiaries and rated it false.
It cited a CAG audit of the LPG subsidy, which found duplicate and ineligible consumer records but not crores of fakes, and an RTI reply showing only about 4% of 9.4 million deleted MGNREGA job cards were fake. The Prime Minister did not say which schemes he meant.
Later versions of the claim (8 crore in 2019, 10 crore in 2023-24) are separate statements and are not assessed here.
Confidence in verdict & review
- Confidence in verdict
- Medium
- Review status
- draft
- Last reviewed
- 2026-10-17
Notes
The exact wording of the claim is unclear and the verdict rests on the fact-checker's reading. Quote is a paraphrase. The CAG report itself was not opened, only the FactChecker summary.
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