Fact-Check on Holidays for Schools and Colleges in AP

The Quint also received a query regarding the image on its WhatsApp helpline.

There are several grammatical errors and oddly capitalised words in the middle of a sentence in the text. ‘School’ and ‘college’ should be in plural, while ‘march’ and ‘may’ should be capitalised, unlike ‘Holiday’ and ‘Increasing.’ Words like ‘Andra’ (Andhra), ‘restictions’ (restrictions) and ‘Cheif’ (Chief) have been misspelt.

Clearly, this ‘government order’ is fake, as an authentic order would not have such mistakes.

(Photo: Twitter/Altered by The Quint)

Further, we found neither any credible news report regarding the announcement, nor a government order on AP’s official website.

We also looked up other government orders by the department of school education on the website, a sample of which can be viewed below. Comparing this to the viral image shows that such an order does not have pictures of the CM and only contains uniform text, specifying the order number and…

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