Unveiling Political Claims: Fact-Checking Data on Crime and Unemployment (Full Transcript)

Speaker 1: Have you noticed how politicians throw big numbers while talking about the performance during their tenure?

Speaker 2: Today, the unemployment rate in Uttar Pradesh has fallen from 18% to 2.9%. We are not in the context of COVID-19 today. The government of the BJP has done the job of liberating Uttar Pradesh from riots.

Speaker 1: All this data is publicly available, and in this episode of Verify Kiya Kya, I'll tell you how to look for them. Let's take the example of data on crimes and look at this claim made by Sadhguru. He recently said that India had not witnessed any major riots in the past 10 years. That doesn't sound right, does it? In India, the data on crime is collected by the National Crime Records Bureau, which comes under the Ministry of Home Affairs. You can simply type data on riots and accompany this search with site://ncrb.gov.in to see results related to the NCRB only. In case you're wondering why I did this, then the answer is simple. This is to filter out all the unnecessary results and get the information which is available only on the NCRB website. In the same way, I can also look for a file type. I can type data on riots and mention file type colon pdf. Now, if you notice, the results will only show documents which are in the form of a pdf and have these keywords. Similarly, you can use the time filter to make your search narrower. Now see, my results have landed me on the crime stats reports from 2020. To verify this statement, I will have to go through the reports for the last 10 years. On doing this, I found out that the claim was false. As per the NCRB, India had witnessed over 5,000 riots between 2014 and 2020. In the same way, I can look at statistics from other government websites based on the data provided by different ministries. For example, if you're looking for data on health, you can look out for the annual National Family Health Survey report. Data on social, demographic, and economic indicators are compiled and made available on the website of the Reserve Bank of India. Data on unemployment is compiled by the CMIE which is an independent think tank and also in Periodic Labour Force Survey reports which is compiled by the National Statistical Office which comes under the Ministry of Statistics and Implementation. And don't worry, the links to all these websites will be in the description box below. We have started this series to make fact checking simple, easy, and accessible to all. So if you have any query that you want to get verified or if you want to know anything about fact checking then send it to us on WhatsApp at 964-365-1818 or you can write it to us at webcouffe at theriddaquinn.com Thanks for watching.