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Claim: Visuals inside a sleeper coach of the Coromandel Express that met with an accident in Odisha’s Balasore on 2 June 2023 (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-06-04)
Evidence (2023-06-06): A video of a railway coach jam-packed with passengers is circulating on social media, claiming that it depicts the state of the Coromandel Express involved in the freak train accident that occurred on 2 June 2023. Let’s fact-check this claim through this article. [...] Fact: Although this video was shot inside the Coromandel Express, it was not filmed on the day of the accident. It was filmed on 5 May 2023 by a passenger named Sidhant Kumar Panda. Hence, the claim made in the post is False. [...] After the Coromandel Express met with an accident on 2 June 2023, Sidhant commented under the same tweet, thanking everyone concerned about his safety. He assured everybody that he was fine and that he travelled in the Coromandel Express a few days before the train was involved in the accident. All of this evidence clearly disproves the claim made in the viral post that the video shows the situation inside the Coromandel Express train involved in the tragic Odisha train crash.
Claim: Visuals inside a sleeper coach of the Coromandel Express that met with an accident in Odisha’s Balasore on 2 June 2023 (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-06-04)
Evidence (2023-07-08): The move follows the deaths of at least 275 people in a three-way crash involving two passenger trains and a freight train in eastern Odisha state on June 2. [...] According to senior railway officials, the crash took place when the Coromandel Express, a high-speed train traveling from Kolkata to Chennai, was diverted onto a loop line and slammed into a heavy goods train idled at Bahanaga Bazar railway station.
Claim: Visuals inside a sleeper coach of the Coromandel Express that met with an accident in Odisha’s Balasore on 2 June 2023 (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-06-04)
Evidence (2023-06-05): While this video is indeed from the Coromandel Express, it was recorded on May 5, approximately a month before the tragic train accident in Odisha. [...] With the help of a keyword search, we found that the same video was tweeted by a person named Sidhant Kumar Panda on May 5. According to his tweet, the video was shot inside a sleeper coach of the 12841 Coromandel Express. Sharing the video, Panda wrote, "This is the situation in 12841 Coromandel Express (Sleeper Coach). Please take the necessary action. Every one of us who has CNF seats are suffering a lot. My PNR 6318071331." Panda also tagged the Twitter accounts of the Ministry of Railways, its minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, as well as the Railway Protection Force. [...] According to survivors, the sleeper coaches of the Coromandel Express were crowded even on June 2, the day the accident occurred. A survivor from Kerala told the Indian Express, "Even the sleeper coach was crowded. Our tickets were not confirmed, so we had to vacate the seats for confirmed ticket holders after the train left Balasore station. The four of us were standing, carrying our bags when we heard a loud noise."
Claim: Visuals inside a sleeper coach of the Coromandel Express that met with an accident in Odisha’s Balasore on 2 June 2023 (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-06-04)
Evidence (2023-06-05): BALASORE, India (OSV News) — In one of deadliest crashes in decades in India, more than 280 people died when three trains collided 137 miles southwest of Kolkata, the home of Mother Teresa and her Missionaries of Charity. Over 1,000 people were injured. The Associated Press reported that chaotic scenes that erupted at night after the derailment June 2. According to the BBC, citing Indian officials, several carriages from the Shalimar-Chennai Coromandel Express derailed in Balasore district, hitting a stationary goods train. Several of its coaches ended up on the opposite track. Then the third train — Howrah Superfast Express traveling from Yesvantpur to Howrah — hit the overturned carriages. [...] Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a message said he was "distressed by the train accident in Odisha. In this hour of grief, my thoughts are with the bereaved families. May the injured recover soon."
Claim: Visuals inside a sleeper coach of the Coromandel Express that met with an accident in Odisha’s Balasore on 2 June 2023 (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-06-04)
Evidence (2023-06-04): There was still confusion about the exact sequence of events leading to the worst rail disaster in decades in Odisha state’s Balasore district on Friday. Jaya Verma Sinha, a senior railway official, said on Sunday the preliminary investigation revealed a signal was given to the high-speed Coromandel Express to run on the main track but it later changed, and the train instead entered an adjacent loop line where it rammed a freight train loaded with iron ore. The collision flipped Coromandel Express’s coaches onto another track, causing the incoming Yesvantpur-Howrah Superfast Express from the opposite side to slam into the wreckage and also derail, she said.
Claim: Visuals inside a sleeper coach of the Coromandel Express that met with an accident in Odisha’s Balasore on 2 June 2023 (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-06-04)
Evidence (2023-06-03): People gather at the accident site of the train collision in Balasore district in the eastern Indian state of Odisha June 2, 2023. Many feared killed and over 300 people were injured after a passenger train collided with a cargo train Friday evening in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, local media reports said. (UNI via Xinhua) [...] Rescuers work at the site of a train collision in Balasore district in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, June 3, 2023.(Xinhua/Javed Dar) This photo taken on June 3, 2023 shows the site of a train collision in Balasore district in the eastern Indian state of Odisha.(Xinhua/Javed Dar)
Claim: Visuals inside a sleeper coach of the Coromandel Express that met with an accident in Odisha’s Balasore on 2 June 2023 (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-06-04)
Evidence (2023-06-05): The Coromandel Express, which runs from Kolkata in West Bengal to Chennai in Tamil Nadu, was going about 80mph (130km/h) when it collided with a stationary freight train at about 7pm on Friday, causing it to derail. [...] Rajesh Kumar, the senior deputy commercial manager of South Eastern Railway, said the Coromandel Express had changed tracks, which led to the incident, and that the reason would be investigated. The death toll was expected to increase as more bodies were recovered from the wreckage and overturned carriages, said the state chief secretary, Pradeep Jena. More than 200 ambulances were called to the scene in Odisha’s Balasore district and 100 additional doctors, on top of 80 already there, had been mobilised, he added. About 850 people had been taken to hospital.
Claim: Visuals inside a sleeper coach of the Coromandel Express that met with an accident in Odisha’s Balasore on 2 June 2023 (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-06-04)
Evidence (2023-06-04): Published June 3, 2023last updated June 3, 2023Cleanup operations were underway on Saturday after multiple trains derailed in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. [...] The accident happened in Balasore, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) from Odisha's state capital, Bhubaneswar. [...] As it derailed, the Coromandel Express then hit a freight train, officials told PTI.
Claim: Visuals inside a sleeper coach of the Coromandel Express that met with an accident in Odisha’s Balasore on 2 June 2023 (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-06-04)
Evidence (2023-06-04): New Delhi/Balasore/Bhubaneswar: The three services of India's armed forces – Indian Army, Indian Navy, and Indian Air Force – have been deployed for relief and evacuation operations in the country’s worst railway disaster in at least 30 years. The accident at Bahanaga in Odisha’s Balasore district involving three trains, including two passenger and one goods train, on Friday, has claimed around 300 lives and injured more than 1,000 others. [...] At around 7.10pm, on June 2, the 12841 Coromandel Express running between Howrah’s Shalimar station and MGR Chennai Central rammed into a stationary good train at a speed of over 100 kilometres per hour after being switched erroneously to a loop line from the main line. The impact was so big that it derailed 22 coaches of the Coromandel Express, many of which fell on an adjacent main line, on which the 12864 SMVT Bengaluru–Howrah Superfast Express was running. [...] The derailed coaches of the Coromandel Express bore the brunt of the crash. Almost all the casualties are reported from this train alone.
Claim: Visuals inside a sleeper coach of the Coromandel Express that met with an accident in Odisha’s Balasore on 2 June 2023 (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-06-04)
Evidence (2023-06-07): On June 2, 2023, a major train accident involving three different trains in Balasore, Odisha, led to the deaths of at least 275 people, leaving over 1,100 injured. The Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that the accident happened due to a change in the electronic interlocking and that the rail safety commissioner would soon submit the inquiry report. He also said that the changes done to the electronic interlocking that led to the accident had been identified. [...] However, the image shared with this post is unrelated to the June 2023 incident in Odisha’s Balasore. Logically Facts has found that this image was from 2015. A train en route to Ernakulam in Kerala from Bengaluru derailed in Belagondapalli, near Anekal, on the outskirts of Bengaluru on February 13, 2015. Back then, news outlets had published this photo showing the rescue operations from Belagondapalli. [...] However, this video has been on the internet since May 2023, a month before the crash. The video was shared by a social media user who was complaining about the dire conditions in the sleeper coach of the Coromandel Express.
Claim: Visuals inside a sleeper coach of the Coromandel Express that met with an accident in Odisha’s Balasore on 2 June 2023 (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-06-04)
Evidence (2024-09-22): - 2 June 2023 – 2023 Odisha train collision: Train 12841 Coromandel Express running at 128 km/h (80 mph) collides with a freight train (goods train) loaded with iron ore in Odisha's Balasore district. The accident happened around 19:30 IST near Bahanaga Bazar station when the train was on the way to MGR Chennai Central from Shalimar railway station near Kolkata. More than 20 coaches were derailed. 12864 SMVT Bengaluru–Howrah SF Express travelling towards Howrah passed in the opposite line just seconds before at 130 km/h (81 mph). However, the derailed coaches of the Coromandel Express smashed into the last few coaches of the SMVT Bengaluru-Howrah SF Express before it could completely pass through that section. A total of three trains were involved. More than 1,200 were injured and 296 people died.[190] [...] - 9 June 2023 – A coach of the Vijayawada-Chennai Central Jan Shatabdi Express heading from Chennai Central back to shed derailed near Basin Bridge station at around 2:30 a.m. No injuries or casualties reported.[192] [...] - ^ "As Coromandel, Yeswanthpur Express trains derail in Odisha, here's a list of major train accidents since 2012". The Indian Express. 3 June 2023. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
Claim: Visuals inside a sleeper coach of the Coromandel Express that met with an accident in Odisha’s Balasore on 2 June 2023 (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-06-04)
Evidence (2023-06-03): One train in Friday's accident also hit a freight train parked nearby in the district of Balasore in Odisha state in the east of the country, leaving a tangled mess of smashed rail cars and injuring 803. [...] "The Coromandel Express was supposed to travel on the main line, but a signal was given for the loop line instead, and the train rammed into a goods train already parked over there. Its coaches then fell onto the tracks on either side, also derailing the Howrah Superfast Express," he said.
Claim: Visuals inside a sleeper coach of the Coromandel Express that met with an accident in Odisha’s Balasore on 2 June 2023 (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-06-04)
Evidence (2023-06-05): As the accident happened, the Howrah Superfast Express was passing in the opposite direction at 126km/h (78mph). Coaches from the derailing Coromandel Express collided with rear two coaches of the Howrah Superfast, knocking them off the track. [...] India rail expert Rajendra Aklekar said the driver of the Coromandel Express would have had "absolutely no response time to halt the train" as it all happened in a matter of seconds. [...] "Some of the coaches of the Coromandel Express had gone over the goods train," Mr Biswas said. "There were lots of injured people and bodies here. I met a young boy who had lost both his parents. He was crying and then he died too."
Claim: Visuals inside a sleeper coach of the Coromandel Express that met with an accident in Odisha’s Balasore on 2 June 2023 (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-06-04)
Evidence (2024-06-03): Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: Dilip Pattanayak shudders every time he has a flashback of the tragedy, his body shakes violently just as it did on the fateful evening of June 2 last year, when he was tossed around in a sleeper coach of the Coromandel Express. A year on, the 59-year-old and hundreds like him still struggle to come to terms with that tragedy, described as India’s worst railway disaster in three decades. [...] A little before 7pm on June 2, 2023, the Coromandel Express collided with a stationary goods train laden with iron ore on the loop line at the Bahanaga Bazar railway station at 128 km per hour, with coaches cascading onto each other and some of its derailed coaches then crashing into the Yeshwantpur-Howrah Express, claiming 296 lives and leaving 1,100 injured. [...] A year has passed since the triple-train accident, however, the loco pilots of the Coromandel Express, which met with the tragedy, are yet to resume their duties. "They are not yet ready psychologically as well as physically," a Bhubaneswar-based official said, adding that both loco pilots are able to walk with support and have assigned on ground duties.
Claim: Visuals inside a sleeper coach of the Coromandel Express that met with an accident in Odisha’s Balasore on 2 June 2023 (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-06-04)
Evidence (2023-06-02): At least 238 persons were feared dead and more than 900 injured in a major rail accident involving two express trains and a goods train in Balasore district of Odisha on Friday evening. The accident took place at around 7 p.m. when two coaches of 12864 (SMVB-HWH) Yashwantpur-Howrah Express derailed near Bahanaga Railway station in Balasore district. The derailed coaches tossed over to the adjoining track and hit the speeding 12841 Coromandel Express coming from the opposite direction. It led to derailment of about 17 bogies. [...] A goods train was also involved in the accident as the coaches of the Coromandel Express hit its wagons after getting derailed, the official said.
Claim: Visuals inside a sleeper coach of the Coromandel Express that met with an accident in Odisha’s Balasore on 2 June 2023 (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-06-04)
Evidence (2023-06-03): The death toll from the collision of two Indian passenger trains in Odisha state has surged to 288 and more than 850 are injured, a state government official told AFP on Saturday, making the rail accident the country's deadliest in more than two decades.[1/6] A drone view shows derailed coaches after two passenger trains collided in Balasore district in the eastern state of Odisha, India, June 3, 2023. REUTERS/Stringer [...] Chief Secretary Pradeep Jena said on Twitter that over 200 ambulances had been called to the scene of Friday's accident in Odisha's Balasore district and 100 additional doctors, on top of 80 already there, had been mobilised.
Claim: Visuals inside a sleeper coach of the Coromandel Express that met with an accident in Odisha’s Balasore on 2 June 2023 (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-06-04)
Evidence (2023-06-05): Government authorities June 4 were working to get rail services back in operation in the district of Balasore after the deadliest train crash in India in decades killed 275 people and injured at least 1,000 June 2. [...] The Associated Press reported that chaotic scenes that erupted at night after the derailment around 7 p.m. local time June 2. According to the BBC, citing Indian officials, several carriages from the Shalimar-Chennai Coromandel Express derailed in Balasore district, hitting a stationary goods train. Several of its coaches ended up on the opposite track. Then the third train -- Howrah Superfast Express traveling from Yesvantpur to Howrah -- hit the overturned carriages. [...] Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a message said he was "distressed by the train accident in Odisha. In this hour of grief, my thoughts are with the bereaved families. May the injured recover soon."
Claim: Government has provided for integrated development and management of fisheries with an outlay of Rs. 3000 crores. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2018-05-26): The BJP government published an infographic on the 48-months portal that makes claims about fish production in the country. This article is a fact check of the claims.
Claim: Government has provided for integrated development and management of fisheries with an outlay of Rs. 3000 crores. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2001-10-04): 2. WHAT IS FISHERIES MANAGEMENT? [...] No. 3 Integration of Fisheries into Coastal Area Management [...] The integrated process of information gathering, analysis, planning, consultation, decision-making, allocation of resources and formulation and implementation, with enforcement as necessary, of regulations or rules which govern fisheries activities in order to ensure the continued productivity of the resources and the accomplishment of other fisheries objectives.From this description, it can be seen that fisheries management involves a complex and wide-ranging set of tasks, which collectively have the achievement of sustained optimal benefits from the resources as the underlying goal. These tasks are also summarised in Figure 1.
Claim: Government has provided for integrated development and management of fisheries with an outlay of Rs. 3000 crores. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2022-03-25): The Government of India in recent years has taken several initiatives to harness the full potential of the fisheries sector in a sustainable and responsible manner. The Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS) – ‘Blue Revolution: Integrated Development and Management of Fisheries’ was launched in 2015-16 with an outlay of Rs 3000 crores for a period of 5 years. In order to address the critical gaps in the fisheries infrastructure, ‘Fisheries and Aquaculture Infrastructure Development Fund’ (FIDF) was created in 2018-19 with a fund size of Rs. 7522.48 crores for providing concessional finance to the State/UT Governments, their entities and the private sector. Recognizing the immense potential in fisheries sector, the Government of India in May, 2020 with highest investment of Rs. 20,050 crore, launched a new flagship scheme ‘Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana’ (PMMSY) to bring about Blue Revolution through sustainable and responsible development of fisheries sector in the country. PMMSY is being implemented for a period of five years from 2020-21 to 2024-25 in all States and UTs. As a result of these initiatives, during the recent years the Fisheries sector in India has shown impressive growth with an average annual growth rate of about 10 % (during 2014-15 to 2018-19), the fish production has registered an average annual growth of more than 7% and stood at an all- time high of 141.64 lakh metric tons during 2019-20. Despite various issues faced by the sector during Covid - 19 pandemic, India has achieved all time high exports of marine products worth US$ 7165 million during April to February, 2021-22.
Claim: Government has provided for integrated development and management of fisheries with an outlay of Rs. 3000 crores. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2016-05-11): Integrated Development and Management of Fisheries (Blue Revolution) is the name of an integrated / umbrella scheme covering all existing schemes related to fisheries. This scheme was approved by Union Cabinet in December 2015 and the total outlay is of Rs. 3000 Crore for five years. [...] - National Fisheries Development Board (NFDB) and all its activities - Development of Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture - Development of Marine Fisheries, Infrastructure and Post Harvest Operations - Strengthening of Database & Geographical Information System of the Fisheries Sector - Institutional Arrangement for Fisheries Sector - Monitoring, Control and Surveillance (MCS) and other need-based Interventions. [...] The scheme with its multi-dimensional activities, focuses mainly on increasing production and productivity from aquaculture and fisheries resources, both inland and marine. The scheme is intended to utilise most of the unutilised fisheries resources keeping in view the overall sustainability, bio-security and environmental concerns.
Claim: Government has provided for integrated development and management of fisheries with an outlay of Rs. 3000 crores. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2022-02-11): The Department of Fisheries, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying has implemented a Centrally Sponsored Scheme ‘Blue Revolution: Integrated Development and Management of Fisheries’ for a period of 5 years from 2015-16 to 2019-20 and "National Scheme of Welfare of Fishermen" is one of the component of this scheme. The said scheme has ended on 31stMarch, 2020. [...] Under the scheme on CSS on ‘Blue Revolution: Integrated Development and Management of Fisheries’ the Department has released a sum of Rs.11.60 crores and an average of 36,13,438 nos of beneficiaries were covered under the Group Accident Insurance for Active Fishermen during the period between 2017-18 to 2019-20. Under PMMSY, a sum of Rs. 14.68 crore has been released to provide Insurance coverage to 22,14,893 beneficiaries during 2020-21 to 2021-22 (till date).
Claim: Government has provided for integrated development and management of fisheries with an outlay of Rs. 3000 crores. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2021-01-07): The Government has merged all the schemes of fisheries Sector into an umbrella scheme of ‘Blue Revolution: Integrated Development & Management of Fisheries’. [...] Blue Revolution: Integrated Development & Management of Fisheries [...] Rs 11,000 crore for activities in Marine, Inland fisheries, & Aquaculture & Rs. 9000 crores for Infrastructure – Fishing Harbours, Cold chain, Markets etc shall be provided.
Claim: Government has provided for integrated development and management of fisheries with an outlay of Rs. 3000 crores. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2023-12-12): To realize the potential of fisheries sector in the country, the Department of Fisheries, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Government of India has been taking up various initiatives for holistic development of fisheries and welfare of fishers. The initiatives inter-alia includes implementation of three major schemes namely (i) Centrally Sponsored Scheme(CSS) on Blue Revolution: Integrated Development and Management of Fisheries implemented during the period 2015-16 to 2019-20 with the central outlay of Rs.3000 crore and fisheries projects with an investment of Rs. 5000 crore were approved under this scheme during above said period, (ii) Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana (PMMSY) implemented for a period of 5 years from year 2020-21 to 2024-25 with a total investment of Rs.20050 crore and projects worth of Rs. 17527.22 crore with central share of Rs.7209.31 crore have been approved so far under this scheme and (iii) Fisheries and Aquaculture Infrastructure Development Fund (FIDF) implemented from the year 2018-19 with funds size of Rs.7522.48 crore to provide concessional finance to various end implementing agencies including State Governments/UTs for creation of fisheries infrastructure facilities and fisheries infrastructure projects worth of Rs 5588.63 crore have been approved under this scheme.