Claim: Each citizen would get Rs. 14.81 crores, if the 2000 crores spent on building a statute is distributed among the 135 crore population.
Fact-check: Social media users are sharing this wrong math calculation about the cost of 'Statue of Unity' - FACTLY
Verdict: each individual would get just 14.81 rupees and not 14.81 crores, if 2,000 crores is distributed among 135 crore population of the country. such simple calculation failures are often being shared on social media on different issues. for instance, such wrong calculations are also shared when elon musk announced the $44 billion twitter acquisition plan. hence the claim made in the post is false.
Organisation: FACTLY
Author: Chaitanya
Date published: 2022-07-13T11:15:31