A post is being shared on social media with a message that H C Verma, an IIT Kanpur Physics Professor, has been receiving one crore rupees every year as royalty for his book ‘Concept of Physics’. This post goes onto claim that H C Verma has been donating all this money to the PM’s Relief Fund and charity. Let’s verify the claim made in the post.
Claim: IIT Kanpur Professor H C Verma has been donating one crore rupees every year to the PM’s Relief Fund and charity.
Fact: This message has been in circulation on social media at least since 2018. Professor H C Verma through a Facebook post in 2018 had clarified that this news about him donating one crore rupees to the PM’s Relief Fund is false. Hence the claim made in the post is FALSE.
On searching for the details of the claim made in the post, it is found out that the same message has been in circulation on social media at least since 2018. IIT Kanpur professor H C Verma had issued a clarification regarding this message circulating on social media. In his Facebook post on 13 April 2018, H C Verma said, “Dear Friends, I came to know about a Twitter post telling that I earn 1 crore of royalty and donate the whole money to the PM Relief fund. I wish I could do that. I wish to categorically deny the information. A scooter photo is also shown in the post. I never had a scooter of this colour and make. I am just one of you, a common man and a physics learner”.
Several news websites have published news articles reporting the clarification issued by the IIT Kanpur professor, H C Verma. They can be seen here and here. From all these pieces of evidence, it can be concluded that IIT Kanpur professor H C Verma had not been donating one crore rupees every year to the PM’s Relief Fund.
To sum it up, IIT Kanpur physics professor H C Verma had not donated one crore rupees every year to the PM’s Relief Fund.
