Modi says rural infrastructure gap with cities has narrowed

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that the infrastructure gap between Indian cities and villages has narrowed significantly over the past 12 years. Mr Modi said infrastructure in villages had improved significantly, according to The Hindu. The supplied material did not identify the infrastructure sectors he was referring to or provide figures to measure the change.

It also did not specify whether the claim concerned roads, electricity, housing, water, telecommunications, public services or another category of infrastructure. No individual rural areas or projects were named. The report gave no details about the occasion on which the Prime Minister made the statement, nor did it include comments from opposition parties, rural residents, government departments or independent researchers.

As presented in the available material, the assessment is Mr Modi’s claim about developments over the previous 12 years. The source did not provide an independent comparison between villages and cities, or figures showing how the gap had changed during that period.