Search results for “Gram Medical Assistance Fund” largely trace back to a viral forward claiming a room/fund was inaugurated at Mantralaya by Devendra Fadnavis and Salman Khan with aid up to Rs 25 lakh. The Hindu’s fact-checks report there is no credible official record, photograph, or contemporaneous government announcement for such an inauguration, and the Maharashtra CMO explicitly labeled the viral claim as fake news.
What appears to be getting confused is a real, older initiative: coverage of a 2016 Rural Medical Aid Fund launch involving Fadnavis and Salman Khan. That 2016 fund’s reported assistance cap was up to Rs 2 lakh (not Rs 25 lakh), meaning the viral “Gram Medical Assistance Fund” name and the higher aid amount are part of the misinformation, not an official current scheme.
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