On one hand, people are troubled by the rising inflation in the country, on the other hand, so many taxes have been imposed on the earners that they are also troubled. Tax payers wish that if we give a part of our earnings to the government in the form of tax, then we should also get the same facilities. But this does not happen. But amidst all this, a video is going viral on social media, in which it is being claimed that in a country named Turkmenistan, people not only get free electricity and water, but they also do not have to pay for gas. In such a situation, we tried to know the truth of this post. We used the Internet and other sources, then it came to know that all this was really available for free in Turkmenistan, but now it is not so.
First let’s talk about the viral video, it is clearly written in it that Turkmenistan is the only country in the whole world where gas, electricity and water are given free to the people from 1993 till date. This post has been shared on Instagram by a user named Daily Life Fact Knowledge, which is followed by 16 thousand people on this platform. This post has received more than 12 lakh views so far. At the same time, thousands of people have liked and shared it. But this is only half the truth. Actually, in Turkmenistan, since the year 1993, people there really used to get electricity, water and gas for free. But in the year 2019, the then President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov abolished this provision. According to the reason given by the government behind ending it, there was the growing population of the country and the deteriorating economic conditions there. Currently, none of these things are free in Turkmenistan. Therefore, the claim made in the post is misleading.