A blaze of publicity has showcased the sanitation and water-supply achievements of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, such as the rural version of the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM-Rural), or Clean India Mission, which is an existing scheme renamed.

Another programme, the Modi sarkaar claims to have introduced, the piped-water supply through solar-power-based dual pumps, was incidentally launched by the previous government as well.

There are four problems we found with these claims. We emailed our findings to the ministry last week, requesting them to comment, but there was no response.