A video of journalist Sudhir Chaudhary is going viral on social media (here, here), in which he appears to be reading a news bulletin stating that from 01 July 2025, all ration card holders will receive ₹5,000 under new rules and that people should apply on a website called jharnanews.com. The video is being shared with the claim that this is a scheme launched by the Government of India. Let’s verify the truth behind the video in this article.
Claim: The video shows journalist Sudhir Chaudhary reporting that from 01 July 2025, all ration card holders will get ₹5,000 under a new scheme launched by the Government of India.
Fact: The Government of India has not announced any scheme offering ₹5,000 to all ration card holders. The viral video of Sudhir Chaudhary reporting this claim is digitally altered. The original video is from his DECODE episode on the Israel-Iran conflict and makes no mention of such a scheme. Hence, the claim made in the post is FALSE.
To verify the claim, we conducted a Google keyword search with relevant keywords. However, we did not find any credible media reports or official announcements supporting this. If such a scheme existed, it would have received significant media coverage, but no such reports were found.
We reviewed the official government portal MyScheme to check whether any such scheme exists. However, we found no mention of any scheme offering ₹5,000 to ration card holders, and no related information was available on the website.
We then reviewed the press releases issued by the Press Information Bureau but found no mention of any such scheme. If the government had launched such a scheme, it would have been officially announced and publicised, but no such information was found.
To verify the video, we conducted a reverse image search of keyframes from the viral clip, which led us to the original video published on 23 June 2025 on the DD News YouTube channel, titled DECODE with Sudhir Chaudhary LIVE: Iran Vs Israel War | Donald Trump | Ali Khamenei | Emergency. In that video, journalist Sudhir Chaudhary was presenting an episode of his DECODE series, discussing the Israel-Iran conflict in June 2025. We reviewed the entire video and found that at no point did he mention any scheme offering ₹5,000 to all ration card holders from 01 July.
Suspecting that the audio in the video might be AI-generated, we analysed the clip using the Hive AI detection tool. The tool flagged an aggregate score of 99.9%, indicating that the audio is most likely AI-generated.
To sum up, this viral video claiming all ration card holders will receive ₹5,000 under new rules is fake.
