New Delhi, Sept. 17 -- The government fact-checked a viral claim that the Centre notified a scheme for the amalgamation of Public Sector Banks. A document, in the name of the Ministry of Finance, was widely circulated online. Here's what the viral document stated and what the government said in its fact check report:

A document circulating on social media claimed that the central government had notified a scheme for the amalgamation of Public Sector Banks.

The purported document was formatted as an Extraordinary Gazette of India from the Ministry of Finance's Department of Financial Services. It carried the date September 15, 2026, F. No. 10/03/2026-BO.I and G.S.R. 612(E).

The two-page document was attributed to "(Dr. M. P. Sharma), Jo...