Migrant Deaths Data

The government has no data on farmers suicide as many states do not submit figures to the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB), the Rajya Sabha was told in a written reply today.

The government has informed the Rajya Sabha that 97 people died on board the Shramik Specials, admitting for the first time that migrant labourers lost their lives in the trains which were run to ferry them during the COVID-19 lockdown.

Facing opposition attacks for saying there is "no data" on migrant deaths in the coronavirus lockdown, the government today sought to clarify that there was "no mechanism" to collect such data in districts.

The mass movement of migrants after the country went into lockdown in March to fight the coronavirus was because of "fake news", the government said in parliament on Tuesday, delivering a new shocker a day after saying there was no data on migrant deaths, therefore "no question of" compensation.

There is no data on migrant deaths so the "question does not arise" of compensation, the Union labour ministry said in parliament on Monday to a question on whether families of those who had lost their lives while trying to reach home in the coronavirus lockdown had been compensated. The government's written response in Lok Sabha on the first day o...

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who is abroad for his mother Sonia Gandhi's health check-up, this morning tweeted a sharp retort to the government's response in parliament on Monday about the data of migrants' deaths during coronavirus lockdown.

There is no data on migrant deaths so the "question does not arise" of compensation, the Union labour ministry said in parliament on Monday to a question on whether families of those who had lost their lives while trying to reach home in the coronavirus lockdown had been compensated. The government's written response in Lok Sabha on the first day o...

India reported 3,722 coronavirus cases and 134 deaths in the last 24 hours, the Health Ministry's data shows. The total cases in the country are 78,003. Some 26,235 people have recovered and a total of 2,549 have died due to the highly infectious virus. Till now the recovery rate from the novel coronavirus is 33.63 per cent, government data shows. ...

The government has no data on farmers suicide as many states do not submit figures to the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB), the Rajya Sabha was told in a written reply today.

The government has informed the Rajya Sabha that 97 people died on board the Shramik Specials, admitting for the first time that migrant labourers lost their lives in the trains which were run to ferry them during the COVID-19 lockdown.

Facing opposition attacks for saying there is "no data" on migrant deaths in the coronavirus lockdown, the government today sought to clarify that there was "no mechanism" to collect such data in districts.

The mass movement of migrants after the country went into lockdown in March to fight the coronavirus was because of "fake news", the government said in parliament on Tuesday, delivering a new shocker a day after saying there was no data on migrant deaths, therefore "no question of" compensation.

There is no data on migrant deaths so the "question does not arise" of compensation, the Union labour ministry said in parliament on Monday to a question on whether families of those who had lost their lives while trying to reach home in the coronavirus lockdown had been compensated. The government's written response in Lok Sabha on the first day o...

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who is abroad for his mother Sonia Gandhi's health check-up, this morning tweeted a sharp retort to the government's response in parliament on Monday about the data of migrants' deaths during coronavirus lockdown.

There is no data on migrant deaths so the "question does not arise" of compensation, the Union labour ministry said in parliament on Monday to a question on whether families of those who had lost their lives while trying to reach home in the coronavirus lockdown had been compensated. The government's written response in Lok Sabha on the first day o...

India reported 3,722 coronavirus cases and 134 deaths in the last 24 hours, the Health Ministry's data shows. The total cases in the country are 78,003. Some 26,235 people have recovered and a total of 2,549 have died due to the highly infectious virus. Till now the recovery rate from the novel coronavirus is 33.63 per cent, government data shows. ...