Govt. to create data bank of Indians living abroad
Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs has launched an ambitious project to create a data bank of all those going abroad to ensure their well-being, a move triggered by incidents of attacks on Indians abroad.
Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi discussed the contours of the proposed project with Media in New Delhi. The project, first of its kind, was taken up after the Ministry realised that there is no statistics available with the government to keep track of its citizens abroad to ensure their well-being and safety in view of the recent violent attacks on Indian students in Australia.
Starting initially with the students, the data bank will have all the details about them. It will have details such as the name of the city where they are residing, name of the college/university they are studying at and place of their work.
Vaylar Ravi said, his Ministry is in consultation with the Home Ministry on the logistics of the project besides being in talks with the Ministry of External Affairs for its successful implementation.
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