Each listed project incident is real for several entries.
Why we say that›
₹34,343 crore waste total unsupported by any record.
Supported claims cover specific project costs and rapid damage. The aggregate sum and systemic waste framing lack any corroboration.
Each listed project incident is real for several entries. No evidence supports the exact total or systemic waste label.
No source confirms the summed ₹34,343 crore total
Reported 15 Aug 2026
Claims
5 true · 3 unchecked
- Couldn't check
Government infrastructure projects in India costing a total of ₹34,343 crores were wasted because they tanked within one monsoon.
What's actually true
We couldn't verify this claim with a reliable source. No source confirms the total of exactly 34343 crores or calls the projects wasted.
- Couldn't check
These government infrastructure projects cost roughly ₹34,000+ crore and ran into serious problems within weeks or months of opening.
What's actually true
We couldn't verify this claim with a reliable source. No source confirms the summed cost of 34000 crore across the listed projects.
- Couldn't check
The Mumbai-Pune Missing Link project cost ₹6,695 crores and the road broke in 9 weeks.
What's actually true
One source gives the cost and a landslide but no confirmation of damage exactly 9 weeks after opening.
- True
The Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway project cost ₹4,200 crores and its roads broke in 12 days.
What's actually true
The 4200 crore cost and surface damage 12 days after opening.
- True
The Nanda Ki Chowki Bridge in Dehradun project cost ₹16 crores and the bridge broke in 17 days.
What's actually true
The 16 crore cost and approach road collapse 17 days after opening.
- True
Noida International Airport project cost ₹11,200 crores and it had waterlogging issues in 57 days.
What's actually true
The 11200 crore cost and waterlogging less than two months after opening.
- True
The Delhi-Dehradun Expressway project cost ₹12,000+ crores and its roads broke in 79 days.
What's actually true
The 12000 crore cost and potholes 79 days after inauguration.
- True
The Lucknow–Kanpur Expressway saw issues within just 12 days.
The full story, from the sources›
Noida International Airport, inaugurated on March 28, 2026 after a Phase-I investment of around ₹11,200 crore, faced waterlogging. - instagram.com (2026) Just 79 days after its inauguration, the Rs 12,000 crore Delhi-Dehradun Expressway is reportedly riddled with large potholes... inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi on April 14. - The Economic Times (2026-07-02) ₹12,000-Crore Delhi-Dehradun Expressway Crumbles in First Rain. Just months after its grand inauguration by PM Narendra Modi on April 14. - ThePrint (2026-07-02) The recently commissioned INR 66.95 billion Mumbai-Pune ‘Missing Link had to be shut for one day following a landslide near tunnel 2 on the Pune-to-Mumbai corridor, on 7 July 2026... potholes on the Delhi-Dehradun Expressway near Shamli were reported after the first rainfall of the year. - orfonline.org (2026-07-22) A section of the new Lucknow-Kanpur expressway experienced surface slippage just twelve days after its opening... Rs 4,200-crore Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway. - The Times of India (2026-07-27)
From reporting
What else it leaves out (1)›
- No record labels the projects as systemic waste beyond monsoon damage
How it's framed (5)›
Sources (12)›
A public interest litigation has challenged alleged poor construction and repeated cave-ins on the Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway... Built at a cost of around Rs 4,200 crore, the 63-km expressway saw road sections sink and repeated damage soon after its July inauguration.
A section of the new Lucknow-Kanpur expressway experienced surface slippage just twelve days after its opening... Rs 4,200-crore Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway
Just 17 days after it was opened to traffic, the Rs 16-crore bridge at Nanda ki Chowki in Dehradun became the latest casualty of heavy rainfall after a large section of its approach road collapsed early Tuesday... The bridge, inaugurated on July 12
Noida International Airport was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in March 2026, while commercial passenger operations began on June 15... Noida International Airport... first phase was developed at an investment of around Rs 11,200 crore... Rainwater was seen accumulating inside the premises... less than two months after commercial flight operations began
A concrete bridge built at a cost of Rs 16 crore in Nanda ki Chowki, Dehradun, lost its approach road to a large collapse early Tuesday, just 17 days after it was opened to traffic... The structure had been inaugurated on July 12
just three weeks after the 13 July inauguration, commuters were driving around road rollers, excavators... A 300 metre stretch... was being rebuilt just 12 days after it opened after what the National Highways Authority of India calls a “localised surface slippage.
Eight days after the approach road to the Rs 16-crore Nanda Ki Chowki bridge collapsed — just 17 days after it was opened to the public... The bridge over the Tons river... was finally opened on July 12. However, on the morning of July 28, a section of the approach road caved in following the first spell of rain.
Noida International Airport, built at a cost of around Rs 11,200 crore and inaugurated by Prime Minister Modi just six months ago, appeared to expose... when it faced its first spell of rain today
Just 79 days after its inauguration, the Rs 12,000 crore Delhi-Dehradun Expressway is reportedly riddled with large potholes... inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi on April 14
₹12,000-Crore Delhi-Dehradun Expressway Crumbles in First Rain. Just months after its grand inauguration by PM Narendra Modi on April 14
Noida International Airport, inaugurated on March 28, 2026 after a Phase-I investment of around ₹11,200 crore, faced waterlogging
The recently commissioned INR 66.95 billion Mumbai-Pune ‘Missing Link had to be shut for one day following a landslide near tunnel 2 on the Pune-to-Mumbai corridor, on 7 July 2026... potholes on the Delhi-Dehradun Expressway near Shamli were reported after the first rainfall of the year
Notes on this check (7)›
- Unavailable: video media
- Unavailable: audio track (photo/carousel)
- No speech transcript - analysis rests on caption, on-screen text, and frames.
- The reel's central argument depends on claims that were not independently established, so it is reported as misleading context rather than as facts with a false point.
- Dropped 1 support citation(s) for "Noida International Airport project cost ₹11,200 crores a…" because the cited passages do not address the claim directly.
- Dropped 1 support citation(s) for "The Delhi-Dehradun Expressway project cost ₹12,000+ crore…" because the cited passages do not address the claim directly.
- Dropped 1 support citation(s) for "The Lucknow–Kanpur Expressway saw issues within just 12 d…" because the cited passages do not address the claim directly.
Checked against 8 sources · 15 Aug 2026
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