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Indian govt and NGOs at odds over Covid-19 orphan data

Indian govt and NGOs at odds over Covid-19 orphan data
Joydeep Sen Gupta/New Delhi
Filed on May 28, 2021
Orphaned children at an orphanage in India. Photo: Alamy
Apex court takes up cause of hapless children, who face the threat of being uprooted from their familial surroundings
Hundreds of Indian children have become orphans overnight because of the second and lethal Covid-19 scourge.
Though India’s Union Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) has estimated that 577 children have been orphaned due to Covid-19 since April 1, the figure is only “the tip of an iceberg”, social activists and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have maintained. ....

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