The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi greeting people, at the ramparts of Red Fort, on the occasion of 72nd Independence Day, in Delhi on August 15, 2018.

Factchecker did a live fact check on the claims made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his independence-day speech at Red Fort on August 15, 2018.

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The claims, checked and storified:

Modi on #irrigation and 99 closed big irrigation projects. Follow this thread for more insights. #IndependenceDayIndia pic.twitter.com/ocQvTCmYnN — Fact Check India (@FactCheckIndia) August 15, 2018

100% village electrification would have taken one or two more decades. #IndependenceDayIndia pic.twitter.com/ksOIxfhcWG — Fact Check India (@FactCheckIndia) August 15, 2018

Correction: Loans given to 35 million new entrepreneurs and not 3.5 million. We regret the error. https://t.co/AzeOJqPs6E — Fact Check India (@FactCheckIndia) August 15, 2018