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More than 500 Indian workers have died in Qatar since 2012, figures show

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More than 500 Indian workers have died in Qatar since 2012, figures show


As Qatar construction boom gathers pace ahead of 2022 World Cup, Indian government confirms scale of death toll



Link to video: Qatar: the migrant workers forced to work for no pay in World Cup host country





More than 500 Indian migrant workers have died in Qatar since January 2012, revealing for the first time the shocking scale of death toll among those building the infrastructure for the 2022 World Cup.

Official figures confirmed by the Indian embassy in Doha reveal that 237 Indians working in Qatar died in 2012 and 241 in 2013. A further 24 Indians have died in January 2014.

These come after the Guardian revealed last month that 185 Nepalese workers had died in Qatar in 2013, taking the total from that country to at least 382 over two years.


Human rights groups and politicians said the figures meant Fifa could not "look the other way", and should be leading demands for Qatar to improve conditions for the estimated 1.2 million migrant workers fuelling a huge construction boom.


The figures from the Indian embassy show that 233 Indian migrants died in 2010 and 239 in 2011, taking the total over four years to 974. Since the World Cup was awarded to Qatar in December 2010, there have been 717 recorded Indian deaths.


However, the Indian embassy did not provide further details on who those individuals were, their cause of death or where they worked. But analysis of the lists of dead Nepalese workers showed that more than two-thirds died of sudden heart failure or workplace accidents.





Read more: More than 500 Indian workers have died in Qatar since 2012, figures show | World news | The Guardian
 
PJji the lure for better renumeration make people run to gulf ,where they live four or five in a room
or get stuck in bad construction sites . our govt should insist on basic minimals for them. chinese when they send their workers for construction contracts ensure proper living conditions in their own small townships in pak or iran in ports and refineries construction sites. they get good security too. our embassys only look after themselves and their own kith and kin in addition to politicians who often visit. it is a shame.once in my initial career days ,I ended up in france, others from pak and bangladesh in my programme were looked after by their embassys with the ambassadors inviting them even periodically for lunch and enquiring about their welfare.while Indian embassy was callous in giving even simple info.
only for haj pilgrimage during ramadan our ministers and officials mostly give some support and join the pilgrims . for them it is a free pilgrimage
 
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