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Where are these missing 30,000?

by · October 24, 2008

Courtesy Lokmanch*, the popular Hindi blog, I picked up this worrying bit of information:

  1. Between Jan – Jul 2008, almost 30% of Pakistani citizens who travelled to India did not go back after the expiry of their visas
  2. The actual number is 9635 people (until July ’08 alone)
  3. In 2007, 7404 Pakistani citizens did not go back on expiry of their visas
  4. Of those who arrived in 2006, 7650 overstayed and are not traceable 
  5. Of the ones that came in 2005, the number is 7043

…which means that more than 30,000 Pakistani citizens are now officially untraceable in India…and this in the last four years alone.

To make it worse, even if we detect and try to deport them, there is no guarantee that they will be taken back.

🙁

P.S. According to this exchange in Parliament, apparently 10 million (yes, you read that right) foreigners from Bangladesh, Pakistan etc are staying illegally in our country…

* For my readers unfamiliar with Hindi, here is a ToI report mentioning these statistics. 

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B Shantanu

Political Activist, Blogger, Advisor to start-ups, Seed investor. One time VC and ex-Diplomat. Failed mushroom farmer; ex Radio Jockey. Currently involved in Reclaiming India - One Step at a Time.

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14 Responses

  1. Divya says:
    October 24, 2008 at 9:48 am

    This is one of the banes of not having a transparent system to head-count citizens 🙁 You never know who is living where. Its easy to change names and use guises 🙁 When I was in the US, I used to hate the fact that they fingerprint all foreigners (“aliens” in their lingo), but now I think we should also do the same.

  2. Dirt Digger says:
    October 25, 2008 at 2:38 am

    Interesting facts. Now when politicians want to point fingers at someone, they will point at these ghosts.

  3. B Shantanu says:
    October 26, 2008 at 1:38 pm

    Divya: You are right about having no system to maintain records. I really think we need some kind of a national registry of citizens, a voters’ identity card or something similar (although a national database may be going too far)

    ***

    Dirt Digger: Yes…sad but true.

  4. Rohan Bhanot says:
    October 29, 2008 at 5:00 pm

    BJP’s Delhi CM candidate wants Voter ID cards to diffrenciate between citizens and foreigners.
    (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Make_voter_IDs_must_says_Malhotra/articleshow/3647249.cms)

    But I don’t think the ruling party will do anything, as they can harvest votes from the illegals.

  5. B Shantanu says:
    December 12, 2008 at 11:30 pm

    Extraordinary:

    After returning from the 28th India-Bangladesh Border Coordination Conference in Dhaka recently, Border Security Force Director General A K Mitra said that nearly 1.2 million Bangladeshis, who had entered India on valid papers, have disappeared between 1972 and 2005.

    Mitra was quoting this figure from the West Bengal government’s intelligence reports.

    According to the data available, more than 5.5 million Bangladeshi infiltrators live in Assam.

    In West Bengal, illegal Bangladeshis number about 8 million.

    Tripura has 400,000 Bangladeshis staying without permission.

  6. Indian says:
    December 12, 2008 at 11:45 pm

    Social security Number for all Indians can be the answer for this.

  7. B Shantanu says:
    February 26, 2009 at 2:02 am

    UP cops finding it tough to act against Bangladeshis

    With majority of the estimated 3.5 lakh Bangladeshi immigrants living in the state “managing” to procure electoral photo identity cards and ration cards, the Uttar Pradesh police is in a fix as to how to deal with the menace.

    …According to an estimate of the intelligence department, which had carried an extensive drive across the state to identify Bangladeshi immigrants, there are over 3.5 lakh Bangladeshis living in the state, with temple city Varanasi topping the list with around 40,000 immigrants.

    This is followed by around 30,000 Bangladeshis each in Aligarh and Ghaziabad, 20,000 each in Meerut and Muzaffarnagar and 25,000 each in Lucknow and Noida, the sources said.

    “The population of Bangladeshis is increasing almost every day in the state…As their extradition is a tardy task we are keeping an eye on them”, the sources said.

    …”But the problem is that majority of the immigrants claim themselves to be residents of Assam, West Bengal and areas adjoining the Indo-Bangladesh border. Cross checking their credentials is difficult as it involves time and manpower”, they said.

  8. Bengal Voice says:
    February 26, 2009 at 9:06 pm

    @ Shantanu ji,

    Mughalistan will be a reality by 2020 …. unless we stop it.

    http://www.BengalGenocide.com/Mughalistan.php

  9. Indian says:
    February 27, 2009 at 8:05 pm

    @Bengal Voice

    Won’t let that happen.

    Jai Hind!

  10. Bengal Voice says:
    February 27, 2009 at 9:00 pm

    @Indian,

    If I may ask politely … How exactly are we going to stop Mughalistan from becoming a reality?

  11. Indian says:
    February 27, 2009 at 9:45 pm

    @Bengal Voice

    I never doubted your intention so no need to be polite. Actually very good question. Can’t we keep firm belief? That we won’t let that happen!

    Jai Hind!

  12. Indian says:
    March 2, 2009 at 10:18 pm

    http://kunzum.com/2008/08/29/is-muslim-population-growth-in-ladakh-a-part-of-a-plan/

    And for those indulging in such practices, the law helps them too: in India, polygamy for Muslims is allowed but not for other communities. As a result, large Muslim families are not a surprise with each wife bearing more than a couple of children. The Buddhists feel Muslims are spreading their influence in the mostly Buddhist areas of Ladakh by consciously having many more children – some men have been said to father over 20 – and buying property. The Buddhists believe the money to buy such property and support large families comes from the rich benefactors in the Middle East

  13. Bengal Voice says:
    March 3, 2009 at 10:54 am

    @Indian,

    I mean,on the ground, what can you and I do to stop Mughalistan from happening?

  14. Indian says:
    March 3, 2009 at 11:41 pm

    @Bengal Voice

    I know its becoming tough battle now that is what I am feeling by reading the news of attack on cricket team. Anything is possible if we slumbered to long.