The government is obviously fudging the numbers. The rest of the world was calling them out on this two months ago when they were claiming the "lowest mortality rate in the world". Indian members here were accusing Pakistan for hiding infection numbers based on it. Someone has posted a video of a CNN reporter who spent about an hour at one of the crematoriums. She counted 13 or so bodies being cremated within that hour. The government records for that entire day only showed 7 total cremations. The crematorium in charge said that they are cremating upwards of a hundred bodies every day.
Furthermore, as per other crematoriums, the only deaths being officially registered as 'from Covid' are the ones that come from the hospital with a certificate declaring them as such. All those who are dying in their homes or even in the hospital parking lots are not being declared as deaths from Covid.
Every Indian knows what's going on. However, as is the MO in India (and Pakistan as well, for that matter), as long as they can keep the false perception up, nothing else matters. The more it falls apart the harder they try. At times they do it to the extent that they start believing their own lies at their own detriment.
@gulli's priority is to secure the already shattered and tattered perception of India on an online forum where no one ever believed it in the first place.