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At slightest 20 teachers, including the District Education Officer (DEO) person been served notices successful Madhya Pradesh’s Khandwa for allegedly uploading AI-generated images arsenic portion of a h2o conservation task aft the Congress alleged that the territory medication won a nationalist grant based connected fake images.
On Monday (December 29, 2025), State Congress president Jitu Patwari alleged corruption by the Madhya Pradesh Government and uploading artificial intelligence-generated images connected a authorities portal to unafraid an awards astatine the manus of President Droupadi Murmu.
Khandwa territory administration, however, has rejected the allegations saying that the AI-generated images were uploaded connected a portal that has thing to bash with the award. The territory had secured archetypal spot nationwide for outstanding enactment successful h2o conservation nether the Centre’s ‘Jal Sanchay, Jan Bhagidari (JSJB)’ campaign. Collector Rishav Gupta and Jila Panchayat CEO Nagarjun B Gowda had received a ₹2 crore grant for the territory by Ms. Murmu astatine the sixth National Water Awards ceremonial held successful New Delhi connected November 18.
“Where the BJP authorities should thatch our children the due usage of AI, it is itself indulging successful corruption utilizing AI. In Khandwa, officials of the BJP authorities turned two-foot-deep pits into wells utilizing AI, and uploaded AI-generated images of assorted improvement works crossed the country connected the portal. Based connected these images, they adjacent took an grant from the President,” Mr. Patwari said successful an X post.
“When the crushed world came to light, fields and bare grounds were recovered there. Clearly, this was not h2o conservation, but a crippled of technology-created images,” helium claimed, alleging that adjacent corruption had go “smart nether the BJP government”.
Speaking to The Hindu, Mr. Gowda denied the charges and said that the portal wherever immoderate AI-generated images were uploaded and the portal wherever the medication had uploaded pictures and details of the rainfall h2o harvesting systems constructed crossed the territory were different. The medication won the grant for gathering much than 1.29 lakh specified systems and it is not fixed based connected conscionable pictures, helium added.
“The pictures and details similar determination of the government’s enactment arsenic portion of the run are uploaded connected the JSJB portal of the Union Ministry of Jal Shakti aft aggregate rounds of scrutiny. Officials physically verify each enactment and lone the territory medication tin entree this portal,” Mr. Gowda said, adding that the enactment is besides verified by the State authorities earlier it is submitted to the Union Government.
“In June, a squad from the Ministry of Jal Shakti had conducted carnal verification of much than 1,500 random sites. The grant was declared aft each the scrutiny,” helium added.
The CEO besides said that the JSJB portal was closed astir six months agone and the AI-generated images were posted connected the Catch the Rain (CTR) portal successful October agone for information, acquisition and run (IEC) purposes.
“To beforehand rainfall h2o harvesting, each authorities employees and nationalist representatives had been advised to instal harvesting systems astatine their houses. Some teachers who did not instal the systems uploaded fake images connected the CTR portal to amusement the work. The pictures connected the net are from that portal which has thing to bash with the JSJB run and authorities works,” Mr. Gowda said, adding that the DEO has been issued a announcement arsenic the fake images were uploaded utilizing login credentials of his office.
Mr. Gowda said that responses person been sought from each 20 radical and further enactment volition beryllium taken based connected that.
