No systemic mechanism for recording migrant deaths in district
The Hindu
Lack of official data leads to cause of mortalities not being analysed
In the first week of December alone, the deaths of four migrants were reported in the district.
The victims aged between 22 and 35 years died by suicide, drowning, due to cardiac arrest, or after being hit by train. In October, eight migrant deaths were reported in the district.
While such data has been collated by an NGO, there is no institutional mechanism to keep track of the considerable number of migrant deaths being reported in the district every month despite their relatively young age.
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