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Claim: Adani’s takeover of trainman would result in strong competition for IRCTC (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-06-18)
Evidence (2023-07-08): The announcement last month had led to a mini-controversy with Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh seeking to suggest that Adani's takeover of Trainman may eventually result in the takeover of IRCTC. IRCTC issued a statement to deny the allegation. Explaining the e-ticketing business segment, IRCTC had said that around 14.5 lakh reserved tickets are booked on a daily basis in Indian Railways. Out of these almost 81 per cent are e-tickets and booked through IRCTC itself. Hence, there is no competition between IRCTC and its agents, including Trainman. [...] Trainman is Adani Group's second investment in the travel booking and information segment. In October 2021, Adani Enterprises bought a minority stake in Flipkart's Cleartrip Pvt Ltd, an online travel aggregator.
Claim: Adani’s takeover of trainman would result in strong competition for IRCTC (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-06-18)
Evidence (2023-07-08): Adani Enterprises, the flagship firm of billionaire Gautam Adani’s group, has bought almost 30% stake in Start Enterprises Pvt. Ltd, which owns the online train ticket booking platform Trainman. [...] While last month, Adani Enterprises had described SEPL as "an online train booking and information platform," on Saturday it described the firm as one into "e-commerce and website development." The announcement last month had led to a mini-controversy with Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh seeking to suggest that Adani’s takeover of Trainman may eventually result in the takeover of IRCTC - the Indian Railways’ ticketing and other services arm. [...] Trainman is Adani group’s second investment in the travel booking and information segment. In October 2021, Adani Enterprises bought a minority stake in Flipkart’s Cleartrip Pvt. Ltd., an online travel aggregator.
Claim: Adani’s takeover of trainman would result in strong competition for IRCTC (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-06-18)
Evidence (2023-06-19): Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited on Sunday referring to articles claiming that Adani is likely to compete against IRCTC after its takeover of Trainman clarified that there is no competition between IRCTC and its agents, through an exchange filing. The company further added that Trainman is one of the 32 B2C partners of IRCTC and contributes only 0.13 per cent of the total reserved ticketing. [...] IRCTC has also responded to a tweet by Jairam Ramesh and said it will not be a threat or a challenge to the IRCTC and repeated that the takeover of Trainman by Adani Enterprises will not change anything. IRCTC's Tweet read, "This is a misleading statement. Trainman is one of the 32 authorised B2C (Business to Customer) partners of IRCTC. Changing the stake won't make any difference. All integration and operations will continue to be done through IRCTC. It will only complement IRCTC and is not a threat or challenge to IRCTC."
Claim: Adani’s takeover of trainman would result in strong competition for IRCTC (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-06-18)
Evidence (2023-07-08): The announcement last month had led to a mini-controversy with Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh seeking to suggest that Adani's takeover of Trainman may eventually result in the takeover of [...] IRCTC had issued a statement to deny the allegation. Explaining the e-ticketing business segment, IRCTC had said that around 14.5 lakh reserved tickets are booked on a daily basis in Indian Railways. Out of these almost 81 per cent are e-tickets and booked through IRCTC itself. Hence, there is no competition between IRCTC and its agents, including Trainman. [...] Trainman is Adani group's second investment in the travel booking and information segment. In October 2021, Adani Enterprises bought a minority stake in
Claim: Adani’s takeover of trainman would result in strong competition for IRCTC (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-06-18)
Evidence (2023-07-08): Adani Group said its subsidiary Adani Digital Labs has acquired 29.81% stake in Trainman in an all-cash deal for INR 3.56 Cr [...] In its latest filing, Adani referred to Trainman as an ecommerce and website development company as against online train booking and information platform last month [...] In a regulatory filing, Adani Group said its subsidiary Adani Digital Labs has acquired a 29.81% stake in Stark Enterprises, the parent company of Trainman, for an all-cash deal of INR 3.56 Cr.
Claim: Adani’s takeover of trainman would result in strong competition for IRCTC (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-06-18)
Evidence (2023-06-19): The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) on Sunday clarified that Adani’s acquisition of the online train booking app Trainman would not challenge IRCTC’s domain and would only complement its operations. The corporation said so in response to Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh on Twitter, who claimed that the Adani purchase would compete with the IRCTC. "First competition with IRCTC, then takeover," Ramesh had said. [...] "Trainman is one of the 32 authorized B2C (Business to Customer) partners of IRCTC. Changing the stake won't make any difference. All integration and operations will continue to be done through IRCTC. It will only complement IRCTC and is not a threat or challenge to IRCTC," it added.
Claim: Adani’s takeover of trainman would result in strong competition for IRCTC (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-06-18)
Evidence (2023-06-17): Adani Enterprise will soon be selling online train tickets. Adani Enterprises">Adani Enterprises declared about its intentions on Friday and informed Indian stock market">Indian stock market bourses that it has signed a share purchase agreement for acquisition of 100 per cent stake in Stark Enterprises Private Limited-owned Trainman — an online train ticket booking platform. Adani Enterprises informed Indian bourses about the agreement citing, "With reference to the captioned subject (Intimation for execution of Share Purchase Agreement in relation to acquisition of 100% stake in Stark Enterprises Private Limited), we would like to inform you that Adani Digital Labs Private Limited ("ADL"), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company has signed a Share Purchase Agreement ("SPA") in relation to its proposed acquisition of 100% stake in Stark Enterprises Private Limited ("SEPL"), also known as Trainman, an online train booking and information platform." [...] Trainman is an IRCTC-authorised train ticket booking agent.
Claim: Adani’s takeover of trainman would result in strong competition for IRCTC (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-06-18)
Evidence (2023-06-19): The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation took to Twitter on Sunday to counter Congress’ claim, suggesting that the Gautam Adani-led Adani Group’s takeover of ticketing platform Trainman could result in the takeover of the IRCTC. The IRCTC’s statement came after Congress general secretary in-charge of communication, Jairam Ramesh, tagged a media report regarding the Adani Group’s takeover of Trainman. "First compete with IRCTC… then take over," he captioned the post. [...] "This is a misleading statement. Trainman is one of the 32 authorized B2C (Business to Customer) partners of IRCTC. Changing the stake won’t make any difference. All integration and operations will continue to be done through IRCTC. It will only complement IRCTC and is not a threat or challenge to IRCTC," the Railways body said.
Claim: Adani’s takeover of trainman would result in strong competition for IRCTC (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-06-18)
Evidence (2023-07-08): Home / Companies / News / Adani buys 30% in Trainman's owner Start Enterprises for Rs 3.5 cr [...] The announcement last month had led to a mini-controversy with Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh seeking to suggest that Adani's takeover of Trainman may eventually result in the takeover of IRCTC - the Indian Railways' ticketing and other services arm. [...] Trainman is Adani group's second investment in the travel booking and information segment. In October 2021, Adani Enterprises bought a minority stake in Flipkart's Cleartrip Pvt Ltd, an online travel aggregator.
Claim: Adani’s takeover of trainman would result in strong competition for IRCTC (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-06-18)
Evidence (2023-06-26): In light of Adani Group’s recent acquisition of Trainman, an online ticket-booking and information platform, a social media post claims that the purchase would result in strong competition for IRCTC from the Adani Group. The news is being shared in the current political context claiming that first Adani competes with IRCTC and eventually will take it over. Through this article, let’s fact-check the claim made in the post. [...] Following the takeover, social media is abuzz with claims that this would result in strong competition for IRCTC. Politicians like Congress MP Jairam Ramesh took to Twitter alleging that this will eventually lead to IRCTC’s takeover by Adani. [...] To sum it up, Trainman contributes only 0.13% of total reserved ticketing. Adani’s takeover wouldn’t challenge IRCTC.
Claim: Adani’s takeover of trainman would result in strong competition for IRCTC (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-06-18)
Evidence (2023-07-09): This investment in Trainman marks the Adani Group’s second foray into the travel booking and information segment. In October 2021, Adani Enterprises acquired a minority stake in Cleartrip Pvt Ltd, an online travel aggregator owned by Flipkart. While the initial description of SEPL by Adani Enterprises referred to it as an "online train booking and information platform", the company now describes it as an entity involved in "e-commerce and website development". This change in description caused some controversy last month when Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh suggested that Adani’s acquisition of Trainman could potentially lead to a takeover of IRCTC, the Indian Railways’ ticketing and service arm. However, IRCTC issued a statement denying the allegation, explaining that around 14.5 lakh reserved tickets are booked daily in Indian Railways, with approximately 81 per cent being e-tickets processed through IRCTC itself. As a business-to-consumer (B2C) partner of IRCTC, Trainman contributes only 0.13 per cent of the total reserved ticketing. IRCTC emphasised that there is no competition between IRCTC and its agents, including Trainman, as they are integrated with IRCTC’s platform, ultimately benefiting customers by providing a seamless ticketing process.
Claim: Adani’s takeover of trainman would result in strong competition for IRCTC (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-06-18)
Evidence (2023-06-19): IRCTC sees no red flag from Adani’s call to acquire Trainman
Claim: Adani’s takeover of trainman would result in strong competition for IRCTC (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-06-18)
Evidence (2023-06-17): Explain that Trainman is an online train ticket booking platform. At the same time, Adani Enterprises will acquire this company through Adani Digital Labs Private Limited. Adani Enterprises, the flagship company of businessman Gautam Adani Group, is now preparing to sell online train tickets. Indeed, Adani Enterprises has informed the Indian stock market that it has signed a share purchase agreement to acquire 100 per cent stake in ticket booking platform Trainman from Stark Enterprises Pvt Ltd. This move by Adani Group will challenge the monopoly of Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (ITCTC) in the online train ticket booking business. Explain that Trainman is an online train ticket booking platform. At the same time, Adani Enterprises will acquire this company through Adani Digital Labs Private Limited.
Claim: Adani’s takeover of trainman would result in strong competition for IRCTC (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-06-18)
Evidence (2023-06-19): On June 16, Adani Digital Labs Private Limited signed a share purchase agreement and announced that it has acquired a 100% stake in Stark Enterprises Private Limited ("SEPL"), also known as Trainman. Trainman is a train ticket booking application and a partner of the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC). [...] When the news first broke, news portals were reporting on the acquisition, saying that this would make Adani Group a competitor of the IRCTC. To address the situation, on June 18, the IRCTC released a clarification saying that around 14.5 lakh tickets are booked daily in Indian Railways – out of which 81% are e-tickets booked through IRCTC. It further clarified that Trainman is one of its 32 business-to-consumer (B2C) partners and only contributes 0.13% of total reserved ticketing and that a change in ownership will not affect its B2C policy. To clarify, ICICI Direct also tweeted – "IRCTC is a 100% monopoly in railway ticketing. Whether you book tickets from IRCTC or from aggregators like Paytm, MakeMyTrip or now Adani acquired Trainman, IRCTC makes money."
Claim: Adani’s takeover of trainman would result in strong competition for IRCTC (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-06-18)
Evidence (2023-07-08): This change in description sparked a minor controversy, with Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh suggesting that Adani's acquisition of Trainman could potentially lead to the takeover of IRCTC, the ticketing and services division of Indian Railways. IRCTC released a statement refuting the allegation and provided an explanation regarding its e-ticketing business segment. According to IRCTC, approximately 14.5 lakh reserved tickets are booked daily within the Indian Railways system. Out of these, nearly 81 percent of the bookings are e-tickets processed directly through IRCTC. As a result, there is no competition between IRCTC and its agents, including Trainman. [...] Adani Group's investment in Trainman marks its second venture into the travel booking and information sector. Previously, in October 2021, Adani Enterprises acquired a minority stake in Cleartrip Pvt Ltd, an online travel aggregator owned by Flipkart.
Claim: Adani’s takeover of trainman would result in strong competition for IRCTC (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-06-18)
Evidence (2023-06-17): Adani Enterprises will soon be selling online train tickets as it informed the Indian stock market bourses on Friday that it has signed a share purchase agreement for the acquisition of a 100 per cent stake in Stark Enterprises Private Limited-owned Trainman — an online train ticket booking platform. [...] Adani Enterprises informed Indian bourses about the agreement citing, "With reference to the captioned subject (Intimation for execution of Share Purchase Agreement in relation to acquisition of 100% stake in Stark Enterprises Private Limited), we would like to inform you that Adani Digital Labs Private Limited ("ADL"), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company has signed a Share Purchase Agreement ("SPA") in relation to its proposed acquisition of 100% stake in Stark Enterprises Private Limited ("SEPL"), also known as Trainman, an online train booking and information platform." Trainman is an IRCTC-authorised train ticket booking agent.
Claim: Adani’s takeover of trainman would result in strong competition for IRCTC (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-06-18)
Evidence (2023-07-11): Basically, this investment in Trainman marks the Adani Group’s second foray into the travel booking and information segment. [...] Although, this change in description caused some controversy last month when Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh suggested that Adani’s acquisition of Trainman could potentially lead to a takeover of IRCTC, the Indian Railways’ ticketing and service arm. [...] So, in simple words, there is no competition between IRCTC and its agents, including Trainman, as they are integrated with IRCTC’s platform, ultimately benefiting customers by providing a seamless ticketing process, IRCTC emphasized.
Claim: Adani’s takeover of trainman would result in strong competition for IRCTC (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-06-18)
Evidence (2024-10-09): Post this news, a section of people said that Adani will now compete with IRCTC. Obviously, Adani competing with any business is big news, and if you are an IRCTC investor, you may be worried. So before going into the details, make yourself comfortable - Adani is not competing with IRCTC. However, it is crucial to understand what has happened. Let's get started and answer all your questions about this acquisition. [...] We need to understand the competition of IRCTC. As mentioned above, Trainman is one of its partners. Therefore, the question of competition does not arise.
Claim: The number of ITRs filed during FY 2017-18 is 6.84 crore, a jump of 80.5% compared to FY 2013-14 (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2018-05-26): One of the infographics put up by the current government on the 48-month portal makes certain claims about formalization of the economy leading to securing people’s rights, as part of a broader set of claims about eliminating corruption. Here is a Fact Check of these specific claims.
Claim: The number of ITRs filed during FY 2017-18 is 6.84 crore, a jump of 80.5% compared to FY 2013-14 (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2019-04-05): OverThe Income Tax department said Thursday it added 1.07 crore new taxpayers while the number of dropped filers' came down to 25.22 lakh in 2017-18, showing the positive impact of demonetisation. In a statement, the Central Board Of Direct Taxes (CBDT) said 6.87 crore Income Tax Returns (ITRs) were filed during FY 2017-18 as compared to 5.48 crore ITRs filed during FY 2016-17, translating into a growth of 25 per cent. Also, during FY 2017-18, the number of new ITR filers increased to 1.07 crore as compared to 86.16 lakh new ITR filers added during FY 2016-17, it added.
Claim: The number of ITRs filed during FY 2017-18 is 6.84 crore, a jump of 80.5% compared to FY 2013-14 (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2019-05-06): The CBDT in its statement on Monday said the 6.74 crore income tax returns filed in the 2017-18 fiscal included 5.47 crore income tax returns (ITRs) for assessment year (AY) 2017-18. "In comparison, during FY 2018-19, a total of 6.68 crore ITRs were e-filed which included 6.49 crore ITRs of current AY 2018-19, marking an increase of almost 19 per cent," it said in a statement. [...] The CBDT said that during 2017-18, apart from the returns for fiscal 2016-17 (AY 2017-18), nearly 1.21 crore ITRs were filed for fiscal 2015-16 (AY 2016-17). The balance number of ITRs filed for AY 2015-16 and prior AYs is 0.06 crore.
Claim: The number of ITRs filed during FY 2017-18 is 6.84 crore, a jump of 80.5% compared to FY 2013-14 (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2018-04-02): "2017-18 direct tax collection recorded at Rs 9.95 lakh crore, up by 17.1 percent year-on-year. Nearly 6.84 crore tax returns were filed compared to 5.43 crore, thus registering a 26 percent year-on-year hike," CBDT Chairman Sushil Chandra said here at a press conference. [...] During FY 2017-18, 6.84 crore Income Tax Returns (ITRs) were filed with the Income Tax Department as compared to 5.43 crore ITRs filed during FY 2016-17, showing a growth of 26 percent. There has been a sustained increase in the number of ITRs filed in the last four financial years. As compared to 3.79 crore ITRs filed in F.Y. 2013-14, the number of ITRs filed during F.Y. 2017-18 (6.84 crore) has increased by 80.5 percent. During FY 2017-18, the number of new ITR filers has also increased to 99.49 lakh (as on March 30) as compared to 85.51 lakh new ITR filers added during FY 2016-17, which translates into a growth of 16.3 percent. (ANI)
Claim: The number of ITRs filed during FY 2017-18 is 6.84 crore, a jump of 80.5% compared to FY 2013-14 (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2023-08-07): Of the total 6.77 crore individual income tax return (ITR) filers for the financial year 2022-23, 4.65 crore people reportedly paid zero tax. This means more than half of the people who filed ITR till July 31, 2023 (the deadline for filing ITR for FY22-23 without penalty) were either not eligible to pay tax or paid no tax. To put into perspective, while the number of people filing ITRs has significantly increased, the number of people with zero tax liability has also risen. The number of people filing returns amounting to zero tax liability stood at 2.9 crore in FY2019-20, according to Finance Ministry data. [...] Out of the 6.77 crore ITRs filed for AY 2023-24, 49.18 percent of ITRs were ITR-1 (3.33 crore), 11.97 percent were ITR-2 (81.12 lakh), 11.13 percent were ITR-3 (75.40 lakh), 26.77 percent were ITR-4 (1.81 crore) and 0.94 percent were ITR-5 to 7 (6.40 lakh). Over 46 percent of these ITRs were filed using the online ITR utility available on the e-filing portal and the balance has been filed using offline ITR utilities, the department said.
Claim: The number of ITRs filed during FY 2017-18 is 6.84 crore, a jump of 80.5% compared to FY 2013-14 (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2019-04-04): New Delhi, Apr 4 () The Income Tax department said Thursday it added 1.07 crore new taxpayers while the number of 'dropped filers' came down to 25.22 lakh in 2017-18, showing the positive impact of demonetisation. In a statement, the Central Board Of Direct Taxes (CBDT) said 6.87 crore Income Tax Returns (ITRs) were filed during FY 2017-18 as compared to 5.48 crore ITRs filed during FY 2016-17, translating into a growth of 25 per cent. Also, during FY 2017-18, the number of new ITR filers increased to 1.07 crore as compared to 86.16 lakh new ITR filers added during FY 2016-17, it added. [...] Dropped Filers, which is defined as a person who was earlier in the filer base but has not filed return in any of the last three financial years, declined in 2017-18 to 25.22 lakh from 28.34 lakh in 2016-17.
Claim: The number of ITRs filed during FY 2017-18 is 6.84 crore, a jump of 80.5% compared to FY 2013-14 (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2019-05-06): The CBDT in its statement on Monday said the 6.74 crore income tax returns filed in the 2017-18 fiscal included 5.47 crore income tax returns (ITRs) for Assessment Year (AY) 2017-18. "In comparison, during FY 2018-19, a total of 6.68 crore ITRs were e-filed which included 6.49 crore ITRs of current AY 2018-19, marking an increase of almost 19%," it said in a statement. [...] The CBDT said that during 2017-18, apart from the returns for fiscal 2016-17 (AY 2017-18), nearly 1.21 crore ITRs were filed for fiscal 2015-16 (AY 2016-17). The balance number of ITRs filed for AY 2015-16 and prior AYs is 0.06 crore.
Claim: The number of ITRs filed during FY 2017-18 is 6.84 crore, a jump of 80.5% compared to FY 2013-14 (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2024-01-25): i. Net Direct Tax Collections have increased by 160.52% from Rs. 6,38,596 crore in F.Y. 2013-14 to Rs. 16,63,686 crore in F.Y. 2022-23. [...] v. The total number of ITRs filed in FY 2022-23 stands at 7.78 crore showing an increase of 104.91% as compared to total number of ITRs of 3.80 crore filed in FY 2013-14. The availability of the Time-Series data in public domain will be useful for academicians, research scholars, economists and the public at large in studying long-term trends of various indices of the effectiveness and efficiency of Direct Tax administration in India. This time series data is available at www.incometaxindia.gov.in.