On twentieth September, Trinamool Congress MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar claimed that the ladies scientists at ISRO will not be getting their salaries. She made the remarks in her handle on the Lok Sabha in the course of the Women’s Reservation Bill dialogue.
She claimed that girls scientists at IIT Kharagpur and ISRO will not be getting their stipends and salaries. Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar stated, “The women researchers at IIT Kharagpur and women scientists at ISRO are not getting their stipend and salaries. Even after sending Chandrayaan, they are not being paid their salary.”
#TMC MP #KakoliGhoshDastidar claims ladies scientists at @isro will not be getting their salaries. Gets immediately fact-checked by Minister of Earth Sciences @KirenRijiju pic.twitter.com/YM1p4BN52c
— Anurag (@LekhakAnurag) September 20, 2023
Minister of Earth Sciences Kiren Rijiju immediately fact-checked her false claims in the home. He stated, “Every word spoken is a part of the parliamentary document. We should not mislead the house. When Kakoli Dastidar made the statement, she made a very serious allegation that was completely misleading. She said ISRO scientists are not getting regular salaries. The ISRO scientists themselves, including some of the scientists who have retired and who are in touch and regularly supporting ISRO, have clearly said that every regular employee, including those who are pensioners, is getting regular on-time salaries and pensions. The women scientists of ISRO have made special mention that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given the best support to the ISRO, and they have made the country proud.”
Misleading experiences of ISRO scientists not getting salaries
The deceptive experiences about ISRO scientists not getting paid have been circulating since Chadrayaan-3 was launched on 14th July 2023. It was propagated that the engineers who constructed the Chandrayaan-3 launchpad weren’t paid their salaries for over a 12 months. From The Wire to Dainik Bhaskar, all media homes used nearly the identical language of their headlines, with little readability on who had been these engineers.
The report originated from the News Agency IANS wire service on fifteenth July, in the future after the launch. Several media homes picked it up as it’s, together with The Wire, Dainik Bhaskar and a number of other others. In actuality, it was the engineers at Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC) in Ranchi will not be paid salaries because the PSU is dealing with monetary troubles.
