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AFWA's investigation found that both images were from 2020.
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Both these images are shot in 2020. The first image is from Howrah station and was shot on May 11, 2020. The second image was shot at Asansol Junction on August 13, 2020.
A lot has been said about the modernisation of the Indian Railways after the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party government took over in 2014. In that context, a postcard being widely shared on social media features two images of railway stations. Both depict workers cleaning a platform but using different equipment.
While the first image shows several workers cleaning a platform with mops, the second shows a worker cleaning a railway platform with what looks like a motorised industrial scrubber-dryer.
The former was labelled “Before” and the latter was labelled “After”. And the words, “This is Acche Din,” were written at the bottom, to supposedly illustrate the technological upgrades that happened under the BJP-led Centre.
AFWA’s investigation found that both images were from 2020.
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A reverse search of the first image from the postcard led us to a Mint report from May 12, 2020. The article was about a clarification by the Ministry of Home Affairs for railway passengers. This report featured the same image and credited it to Reuters.
Subsequent refined searches led us to the original photo shared by the stock photo website Alamy. Per the details provided in Alamy, this photo was shot at the Howrah railway station on May 11, 2020, a day before rail services in India partially resumed after a nearly seven-week lockdown to slow the spread of Covid-19. Per reports, train services resumed on May 12, 2020, after the government decided to lift the strict lockdown.
When we ran a reverse search of the second image, we found it in a tweet by the official account of Eastern Railway. Per the tweet, this photo was from Asansol Junction in West Bengal, shot on August 13, 2020.
"Intensive cleaning of station platform, station adjacent area and track at Asansol on 13.8.2020 on the occasion of observance of ‘Swachhta Saptah’ from 10 to 16 August, 2020," read the tweet.
Therefore, it is clear that both images are not only from the BJP regime in the Centre, but also from the same year.\
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