Hindustan Times had published an article dated May 27, 2020, titled: "Migrants’ kid dies as father hunts for milk at railway station", claiming that a four-and-a-half-year-old son of migrants from Bihar based in Delhi died of hunger at the railway station on arrival by a ‘Shramik Special’ train.
Goyal stated that train journeys have to be planned and the ministry does not want that after all the preparations and planning, the trains only idle on respective stations and are eventually cancelled as it had happened before.
Principal Health Secretary of Jharkhand Dr Nitin Madan Kulkarni said, "With thousands still returning home every day, we do not have the infrastructure to put all of them in institutional quarantine."