{
 "no": 7,
 "id": "case-7",
 "sk": 20200325,
 "year": 2020,
 "date": "25 Mar 2020 onward",
 "cat": "Data denial",
 "sev": "red",
 "title": "The lockdown migrant exodus. 'No data' on the dead",
 "stamp": "Denied. Uncounted. Unpaid.",
 "human": {
  "v": "<b>10 million+</b> displaced; hundreds to <b>1,000+</b> estimated deaths on roads and rails; tens of millions of jobs lost",
  "est": true
 },
 "cost": {
  "v": "Not a rupee in compensation, because the state said it had no data on which to base any",
  "est": false
 },
 "what": "A nationwide lockdown announced with four hours of notice stranded migrant workers with no transport, no work and no income, forcing millions to walk home. Many died of exhaustion, accidents and hunger.",
 "dodge": "Asked in Parliament how many migrants died and what compensation was owed, the Labour Ministry answered that no such data was maintained, so the question of compensation did not arise. Refusing to count the dead became the very device for owing nothing to the living. It is hard to imagine a colder abdication.",
 "ministers": [
  {
   "n": "Santosh Gangwar",
   "r": "Labour and Employment Minister"
  },
  {
   "n": "Narendra Modi",
   "r": "Prime Minister who announced the lockdown"
  }
 ],
 "pos": "The government said it provided food, ration and Shramik trains to ease migrants' hardship.",
 "alt": "Count every death, publish the toll, compensate the families. Build in humane transition time before shutting a nation down.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "label": "'No data', so no compensation",
   "url": "https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/no-data-migrant-worker-deaths-says-govt-some-news-reports-they-should-read-133096",
   "tier": 2,
   "archiveUrl": "http://web.archive.org/web/20230704225629/https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/no-data-migrant-worker-deaths-says-govt-some-news-reports-they-should-read-133096"
  },
  {
   "label": "Centre tells Parliament",
   "url": "https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/economy-politics/story/migrant-deaths-no-data-available-so-no-compensation-centre-informs-parliament-273047-2020-09-15",
   "tier": 2,
   "archiveUrl": "http://web.archive.org/web/20260727133151/https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/economy-politics/story/migrant-deaths-no-data-available-so-no-compensation-centre-informs-parliament-273047-2020-09-15"
  }
 ],
 "estimates": {
  "deaths": 1000
 },
 "caseUrl": "https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-7/"
}