Exposed: Modi government’s systematic attempt to discredit global ratings that show it in bad light.

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‍The Investigation: How the Modi regime is running a government-wide operation to clean its global image. The primary target is international indices in which the Indian government fares badly. Indices that rank countries on hunger, poverty, democracy, rule of law among others. Optics is the priority, not governance.

How: Lobbying to bump up India's rankings, unleashing ministers to bash the indices, and creating homegrown indices with cherry-picked data. The investigation reveals how the entire operation is running under instructions from the top of the government.

Why do we call it Modi’s Ministry of Truth: In George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the main character Winston Smith works in the records department of the Ministry of Truth. The ministry’s job was to decide what is the truth. Propaganda was its sole purpose.

Read the investigation here: https://www.reporters-collective.in/projects/ministry-of-truth