News Desk, AnyTV, New Delhi
Published by: Abhishek Dixit
Updated Wed, 02 Mar 2022 09:36 PM IST
Summary
In a survey in The Lancet magazine, it was told that 19 lakh children have lost their parents due to corona in India.
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The Union Minister said that the Ministry calls upon all the countrymen, including the States and Union Territories, that the information about the children who lost their parents to Corona can be given along with the facts. Online medium can also be adopted for this. According to the information received from the district magistrates of the districts of all the states of the country, from April 1, 2020 to February 15, 2022, a total of one lakh 53 thousand 827 children have been orphaned due to corona and other reasons. Of these, 1,42,949 children have lost their single parents.
In this sequence 492 children were orphaned and 10,386 lost both their parents. In this, according to the data received by the National Children’s Commission’s Bal Swaraj Portal States and Union Territories, so far 4,196 children who lost their parents due to Corona have been found eligible to take the benefit of PM Care for Children Scheme.
The Union Minister said that in such a situation, institutions like Lancet are making a mockery of democracy by releasing such imaginary figures. In fact, in a survey in The Lancet magazine, it was told that 19 lakh children have lost their parents due to corona in India. Smriti Irani said that the data of death due to corona is investigated and monitored at the state and central level. There is a transparent system for this, so there is no possibility of discrepancy in the figures of the central government.
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