Fact Check: Has the train started running between Rishikesh to Karnaprayag? Know the truth about the video of this train running on the mountains

New Delhi: A video is going viral on social media in which a train is seen passing on the railway track laid between the mountains. While sharing this video, users are claiming that this video is from Rishikesh while going to Karnaprayag. However, during Sajag’s investigation, this claim was found to be fake.

What are the claims of the users?

On social media, a user named @rashtrawadi_ak shared the video of the train passing through a tunnel built on the mountains and wrote – Rishikesh to Karnaprayag.

While sharing this video, a user named @csuresh1950 also wrote – Running train from Rishikesh to Karnaprayag, India’s unfulfilled dream fulfilled. And people ask what work has the Modi government done for the progress of the country?

Apart from these two users, many other users have also shared the video on X.

What is the truth of the viral video?

When Sajjag’s team searched Rishikesh to Karnaprayag train keyword on social media, Received a report from Jagran. In which it was told that the train from Rishikesh to Karnaprayag will reach by the year 2026. According to this report, tunnel construction work is currently going on.

After Jagran’s report, it became clear that this video is not of the train going from Rishikesh to Karnaprayag. After that, Sajjak’s team extracted the keyframes of the viral video and checked it through reverse image, after which Sajjak’s team found a video uploaded on October 14, 2024 on an X account named @HouRui86742553.

Posting this video, the user wrote – This train passing through steep hills is located in Yanbodu town of Sili, Hunan province of China. After this a YouTube video was also found. In which it was told that this is a railway tunnel of China. When Sajjag’s team visited the place mentioned in this video. Searched on Google Earth So this tunnel was found there.

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conclusion: The train shown on social media going from Rishikesh to Karnaprayag is actually a video from China. Presently the work of building a tunnel on the Rishikesh to Karnaprayag railway track is going on. There is no train running on it right now. Users are sharing videos from China with misleading claims.