A viral claim circulating online alleged that a 'Gram Medical Assistance Fund' was inaugurated at Mantralaya, Mumbai, offering needy patients financial aid of up to Rs. 25 lakh (2.5 million INR). This figure is fabricated. The actual event was a 2016 Rural Medical Aid Fund launch, where the aid ceiling was Rs. 2 lakh — more than twelve times less than the amount stated in the viral claim.
The Maharashtra Chief Minister's Office explicitly labeled the viral 'Gram Medical Assistance Fund' story as fake news, and no official photographs, press releases, or contemporaneous reports confirm any such 2026 inauguration. Fact-checks by The Hindu and the Press Information Bureau's own fact-check unit found no credible evidence of the event described in the claim.
The misinformation works by recycling a real 2016 event — which did involve CM Fadnavis and actor Salman Khan — and inflating both the aid amount and the date. The original fund was a legitimate rural health initiative, but its details (name, year, and financial ceiling) have all been distorted in the viral version to make the claim appear more significant and newsworthy.
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