Despite making the world's most stringent coronavirus lockdown a year ago, the Indian government failed to consult the key ministries and states, the BBC's Jugal Purohit and Arjun Parmar investigated.
The BBC recorded in excess of 240 right to data applications with different Indian government divisions - wellbeing, money, catastrophe the board - to see whether and the amount they were counseled in front of the lockdown. The reactions uncovered that there is no proof of key specialists or government divisions being counseled before the lockdown being carried out. The home service, which assumed a vital part in executing the lockdown, more than once dismissed our solicitation for data. It said the appropriate responses we looked for were identified with "key and monetary interest and it additionally contains data which is held under guardian relationship and along these lines excluded from divulgence of data under segment The public authority has likewise denied a solicitation for an assertion clarifying why concerned offices were not counseled early.
