False Statistic · Low confidence
FactChecker compared three-year totals from Budget data: Rs 6.9 lakh crore under Modi vs Rs 5.15 lakh crore under the previous government's last three years, a smaller rise than the claim implied.
Test case in Suite A · score 0.00
English · ParaphrasedCapital expenditure rose from Rs 1.49 lakh crore to Rs 2.64 lakh crore (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
- economy, governance
- 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 |
| Government data | Ministry of Finance | Union Budget documents (as cited by FactChecker) | 2017 | Capex Rs 6.9 lakh crore (Modi, 3 years) vs Rs 5.15 lakh crore (previous 3 years), per FactChecker |
Analysis
FactChecker rated this claim false using Budget data. Comparing three-year totals, capital expenditure was about Rs 6.9 lakh crore under Modi's first three years and Rs 5.15 lakh crore in the previous government's last three years, a rise of roughly a third rather than the near-doubling implied by the quoted yearly figures.
The fact-checker's exact comparison basis was only summarised in the source we could read.
Confidence in verdict & review
- Confidence in verdict
- Low
- Review status
- draft
- Last reviewed
- 2026-10-17
Notes
Only the summary table from BOOM's republication was read; the Budget documents themselves were not opened and the generic indiabudget.nic.in link is the only primary link available. Reviewer should obtain the specific Budget tables.
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