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Many migrant trains not yet running due to lack of cooperation from states, railways rue, West Bengal has approved only 19 Shramik trains

OpIndia Staff -
Uttar Pradesh has approved nearly 800 Shramik Trains thus far. West Bengal has approved only 19.
Media

Following a severe backlash, NDTV deletes the video where their reporter was seen asking a ‘migrant worker’ to pose and ‘walk again’ while crossing...

OpIndia Staff -
After clarifying that the video was sourced from a stringer, NDTV has now curiously deleted the video altogether.
Social Media Fact-Check

NDTV India journalist shares picture of buses from Kumbh to pass off as buses arranged by Congress for migrants

OpIndia Staff -
Laughably, NDTV had itself used the same image back then to report how the UP Government was eyeing to make it to the Guinness Record
Social Media

Former MP and journalist Shahid Siddiqui shares 2016 video from Bangladesh as that of India’s migrant crisis

OpIndia Staff -
Shahid Siddiqui had also claimed that such a miserable state of a person can only happen in a country like India.
News Reports

UP Govt accepts Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s offer of providing 1,000 buses for migrant workers, seeks details

OpIndia Staff -
On 16 May 2020, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had tweeted a letter wherein she had written to UP government seeking permission to ply 1,000 buses for migrant workers.
Media

India Today selling images of migrants is not the problem, problem is media’s hypocrisy

OpIndia Staff -
The India Today Group has decided to sell images of migrant labourers in distress during the lockdown.
News Reports

After migrant workers complain about being forced to travel in cargo truck, Gehlot praises his own govt and Rahul Gandhi

OpIndia Staff -
Gehlot claimed that it will take '6 to 8 months' if migrant workers travel by train. He said that the governments should arrange vehicles for them.
News Reports

Day after Rahul Gandhi poses with migrant labourers, Nirmala Sitharaman calls Congress party “dramabaaz” for refusing to cooperate in migrant movement

OpIndia Staff -
There was also a flashpoint during the Q&A session when Nirmala Sitharaman lost her temper and things became heated.
News Reports

MHA launches National Migrant Information System to monitor the movement of migrants and contact tracing

OpIndia Staff -
All the states are directed to upload data on the NMIS dashboard for better coordination in migrant movement and contact tracing.
News Reports

24 migrants die in road accident in Uttar Pradesh, CM Yogi Adityanath seeks immediate report

OpIndia Staff -
Yogi Adityanath has directed all injured migrants to be provided immediate medical attention after an accident that killed 24 and injured 22
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