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24,570 Indian workers died in Gulf countries since 2012
Shemin Joy, DH News Service, New Delhi, DEC 23 2018, 15:56PM IST UPDATED: DEC 23 2018, 16:12PM IST
The government has given contradictory replies in Parliament on the deaths of Indian workers in Gulf countries over the years while a recent RTI response has suggested that at least at least 24,570 Indian workers have died in Gulf countries since 2012.
In response to a written question in Lok Sabha on December 12, the Minister of State for External Affairs V K Singh has said that Indian missions abroad maintain information in respect of the death of Indian nationals in their jurisdiction, "but not specifically of workers".
Singh pegged the deaths of "Indian nationals" in United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia between 2014 and 2018 at 28,523.
Interestingly, Singh himself had in a written reply in May 2016 has said that the number of deaths of Indian workers is reported from time to time by the Indian Missions abroad. He also provided figures of deaths of Indian workers in 2015 in these six Gulf countries and Iraq in that reply.
While the latest reply claimed that there are no statistics about workers, an earlier reply in July 2016 by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) through its then Minister of State M J Akbar has also provided details of deaths of Indian workers between 2013 and 2016. The deaths were 23,981.
The DH on November 7 reported activist Venkatesh Nayak's RTI which said at least 24,570 Indian workers have died in six Gulf countries. An analysis based on RTI replies and official documents showed had shown that around 10 Indian workers die in Gulf countries every day and for every USD one billion remitted to India, 117 deaths occur. These numbers could increase once the complete figures for Kuwait and UAE are made available.
Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/national/24570-indian-workers-have-died-709524.html
Shemin Joy, DH News Service, New Delhi, DEC 23 2018, 15:56PM IST UPDATED: DEC 23 2018, 16:12PM IST
The government has given contradictory replies in Parliament on the deaths of Indian workers in Gulf countries over the years while a recent RTI response has suggested that at least at least 24,570 Indian workers have died in Gulf countries since 2012.
In response to a written question in Lok Sabha on December 12, the Minister of State for External Affairs V K Singh has said that Indian missions abroad maintain information in respect of the death of Indian nationals in their jurisdiction, "but not specifically of workers".
Singh pegged the deaths of "Indian nationals" in United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia between 2014 and 2018 at 28,523.
Interestingly, Singh himself had in a written reply in May 2016 has said that the number of deaths of Indian workers is reported from time to time by the Indian Missions abroad. He also provided figures of deaths of Indian workers in 2015 in these six Gulf countries and Iraq in that reply.
While the latest reply claimed that there are no statistics about workers, an earlier reply in July 2016 by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) through its then Minister of State M J Akbar has also provided details of deaths of Indian workers between 2013 and 2016. The deaths were 23,981.
The DH on November 7 reported activist Venkatesh Nayak's RTI which said at least 24,570 Indian workers have died in six Gulf countries. An analysis based on RTI replies and official documents showed had shown that around 10 Indian workers die in Gulf countries every day and for every USD one billion remitted to India, 117 deaths occur. These numbers could increase once the complete figures for Kuwait and UAE are made available.
Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/national/24570-indian-workers-have-died-709524.html
