Minister of state for outside affairs V Muraleedharan’s solution got here in reaction to a query through Congress lawmaker Abdul Khaleque who sought info of the variety of Indians who renounced their citizenship due to the fact January 2015.
More than 1.6 million Indians have renounced their citizenship due to the fact 2011, which include 183,741 this year, minister of state for outside affairs V Muraleedharan instructed the Lok Sabha on Friday.
Muraleedharan furnished the parent in a written respond to a query from Congress lawmaker Abdul Khaleque, who sought info of the variety of folks who renounced their Indian citizenship due to the fact January 2015.
Citing information available with the outside affairs ministry, Muraleedharan stated 131,489 human beings gave up their Indian citizenship in 2015, 141,603 in 2016, 133,049 in 2017, 134,561 in 2018, 144,017 in 2019, 85,256 in 2020, 163,370 in 2021 and 1,83,741 until October 31 this year.
For reference purposes, he stated, the parent become 122,819 for 2011, 120,923 for 2012, 131,405 for 2013 and 129,328 for 2014.
According to information furnished through the minister , the overall variety of Indians who’ve given up their Indian citizenship due to the fact 2011 provides as much as 1.6 million human beings.
To Khaleque’s request for an estimate of the wealth taken farfar from India through folks who surrender their citizenship, Muraleedharan stated the outside affairs ministry does now no longer keep the information.
He brought that the variety of overseas nationals, besides residents of Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan, who had taken Indian citizenship become ninety three in 2015, 153 in 2016, a 175 in 2017, 129 in 2018, 113 in 2019, 27 in 2020, forty two in 2021 and 60 in 2022.
In a written reaction to a separate query from BJP lawmaker Rahul Kaswan, Muraleedharan stated a complete of 8,441 Indians are presently in overseas jails, which include beneathneath-trials. Out of this parent, 4,389 are being held in jails withinside the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman.
India and the UAE have signed an Agreement on Transfer of Sentenced Persons, beneathneath which Indian nationals held in prisons withinside the emirates may be transferred to India to serve the the rest in their sentence and vice-versa. The settlement become signed in 2011 and is presently operational.
The switch of a sentenced individual to his usa of nationality beneathneath the settlement relies upon at the of of entirety of numerous formalities, which include the prisoner’s willingness to be transferred, consent of the shifting and receiving usa, availability of entire documentation and clearance from suitable agencies.
“Requests for needful files for processing the switch of sentenced men and women had been despatched to the UAE side,” Muraleedharan stated, with out giving info.