The video was shot in September 2022, when heavy rainfall produced flooding in the Colombian city of Barranquilla. Not related to India.
Jayati Ghosh, a famous development economist who teaches at the University of Massachusetts and serves on two high-level United Nations advisory boards, uploaded a video on Twitter showing a guy ferrying passengers on a small cart through a flooded road. She implied in her post that the video was shot in India. Her story came to light just days after severe rains caused flood-like conditions in numerous regions of the country, particularly in north India.
The caption states, “So much of “New India” with its old inequality in this video: collapsing infrastructure devastated by climate change, human ingenuity grasping any income-earning opportunity in a jobless economic context, barefoot worker serving the middle class…,”
Fact Check-
By conducting a reverse image search on one of the video’s key frames, we discovered a report of the Indian Express uploaded on 18 September, 2022 with the title “Colombian man’s ingenuity to help people cross flooded roads goes viral”
In further search we found RCN Radio, one of Colombia’s prime radio networks, also reported that the video was first posted by the Twitter account Antiuribista on 14 September, 2022.
As per the report the man helping people to cross a flooded road was from the city of Barranquilla. He charged every passenger 500 bars for ferrying them. Heavy rains had caused flooding in many cities of Colombia, including Barranquilla, the report adds.
Conclusion-
Fact Crescendo found the claim made along with the viral video to be False. The video was shot in September 2022, when heavy rains caused flooding in the Colombian city of Barranquilla. Not related to India.
Title:Video of a man helping people in crossing a flooded road in Colombia falsely shared as India
Written By: Usha ManojResult: False
