Image from Bulgaria shared as road made in India

What's the claim?

An image of a poorly paved road is circulating online with the false claim that it is from India. A user on X (formerly Twitter) posted the image with the caption, "Aise sadak Modi sarkar hi bana sakti hai. (Translation: "Only the Modi government can build such roads.")

Screenshot of claims made online. (Source: X/Modified by Logically Facts)

However, the image is not from India but from Bulgaria.  

What we found

Through a reverse image search, Logically Facts discovered that the image in question was originally published by the Bulgarian news outlet Novini 247 on October 13, 2023. According to the report, the road, which shows only two strips of tarred road, is located in the Nenko Balkanski area of Dragalevtsi, a neighborhood in Sofia, Bulgaria’s capital city.

Multiple local Bulgarian news sources also published the image, confirming that it shows a street in the Dragalevtsi neighborhood. This makes it clear that the image has been misattributed to India.

Another Bulgarian news outlet, bTV News, shared a different image of the same street, showing the semi-paved road, stating that it is in Dragalevtsi. The outlet also conducted a ground report from the road, speaking to local residents who said that "two workers passed by and applied the tar with a bucket."

Screenshot of an article showing the image to be from Bulgaria. (Source: Novini 247)

The verdict

This image has been incorrectly identified as being from India. In fact, it shows a street in Sofia, Bulgaria, specifically in the Nenko Balkanski area of Dragalevtsi.