Fact Check: Is NGO called Prerana supported by Infosys Foundation?

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A mess from Prerana Infosys Foundation has recently surfaced on internet pleading viewers to share mess to help deserving candidates from poor financial backgrounds for financial help. mess asks WhatsApp or Facebook/Twitter users to contact three people to get information on same.

mess states that NGO focuses on bright students who have scored more than 80 per cent in ir 10th. It says that such students can contact Prerana NGO and appear in a written test. Clearing this written test would enable m to receive a scholarship or financial support for furr studies. NGO is said to be backed by Indian IT giant Infosys. Take a look at viral mess that has surfaced on web currently. 

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Fact Check on NGO Prerana Infosys foundation

• claim that mess is from Prerana Foundation which is backed by Infosys is False.
• An article from a news portal back in 2011 had mentioned  links between Prerana Foundation and Infosys. According to media portal, when Infosys was asked about same it had stated that foundation was one of dors who donate once in a while for Infosys foundation. But currently, Infosys is t associated with NGO named Prerana. 
• According to different sources, viral mess has been doing rounds on web since 2011 throughout Facebook and WhatsApp and resurfaces once in a while.
• Apparently mess was from Prerana foundation which was active 10 years ago, but w numbers that are given in viral mess are t even operational.
• NGO Prerana is t currently being supported by Infosys Foundation. 
• However, when searched online, NGO Prerana is actually an organisation set up in Bangalore which provides financial aid to merit students from underprivileged backgrounds.
• In an interview published in a media portal, when secretary of NGO Prerana was asked about same, he stated that viral mess was technically shared 10 years back but w tech giant Infosys currently does t support NGO, even though re was an association with Infosys a few years back. He also stated that numbers of people listed in mess do t even work at NGO Prerana anymore. 

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Google Trend Analysis

number of Google searches for this viral mess is slowly increasing with time as is visible in this Google Trends graph. trends of this viral mess have been rising since July 16 and have peaked up today on July 18. 

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