A claim is going viral on some blog sites and social media sites stating that the Government of India is offering free sewing machines to economically weaker women and labor-class women as a part of ‘Free Silai Machine Yojana 2024’ in both urban and rural areas of the country.

A user named Dashrath Mahila posted a blog link showing a woman in the preview and carrying the text: “Free sewing machine scheme 2024, women will get free, sewing machine, application started”

Further, it was mentioned in the blog that the Government of India is organizing numerous schemes for the employment of poor families and their women. The Free Sewing Machine Scheme is one of them which has been started for women of poor families. It is also claimed that this scheme has been implemented only in the state of Haryana by the Haryana Government. However, the Central Government will soon implement this scheme in the remaining states of the country.

In addition to this, several social media users and blog sites have been found to share similar claims.

On related note, Facebook users have also shared this claim.

Additionally, the claim regarding the free sewing machine scheme has been shared for the last several years on the Internet.

Fact-Check

To investigate the claim of the Free Sewing Machine Scheme, the DFRAC team conducted a keyword search and found that the scheme is from the year 2022.

As per media reports from Aajtak and Dainik Jagran, the Central Government declared that under the PM Free Sewing Machine Scheme 2022 (Free Silai Machine Yojana), free sewing machines will be given to 50 thousand women in each state without any expenditure.

Upon further investigation, we found that no announcement has been made by the Central government regarding the PM-free sewing machine scheme 2023 and PM-free sewing machine scheme 2024.

Furthermore, PIB (Press Information Bureau) also mentioned: “The central government is not running any such scheme. This is an attempt to scam, please be careful.

Conclusion

It is clear from DFRAC’s Fact-Check that the claim made by social media users and blog writers that the Government of India is offering free sewing machines to women under ‘PM Free Sewing Machine Scheme 2023’ and ‘PM Free Sewing Machine Scheme 2024’ is false.