Lok Sabha Question No. 479 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2020-09-16
Subject: Stranded Indians Abroad
Ministry: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
Asked by: P.P. Chaudhary, Sunil Kumar Singh

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.479 TO BE ANSWERED ON 16.09.2020

## STRANDED INDIANS ABROAD

479. SHRI P.P. CHAUDHARY:

SHRI SUNIL KUMAR SINGH:

Will the Minister of External Affairs be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has received any requests from Indian nationals stranded in other countries for evacuation;
- (b) if so, the details thereof including country-wise number of requests, age, gender, categories like student, tourists, etc.;
- (c) whether the Government has provided any special assistance to the Indian nationals stranded abroad due to COVID-19;
- (d) if so, the details thereof;
- (e) the details of assistance provided to the Indians abroad; and
- (f) the details of expenditure incurred in the missions for assistance?

## ANSWER THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRYOF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS [SHRI V. MURALEEDHARAN]

(a) & (b) Yes.   In   response   to   requests   for   repatriation   from   Indian nationals   stranded  abroad   during   Covid-19   lockdown,   the   Government launched the Vande Bharat Mission (VBM). As on 11 th   September, over 13,85,670 Indian nationals stranded abroad have been repatriated under the VBM. Country-wise and category-wise registration  list of stranded Indians till date is attached at Annexure- I .

(c) to (f) Yes. The Government has extended assistance to the Indian nationals   stranded   abroad   during   Covid-19.     Indian   Missions   abroad arranged for the welfare of Indian nationals, where required, including through Indian community associations. In some cases, arrangements were also made for screening and testing of stranded Indian nationals to enable them to return to India, as also for the movement of patients via air ambulances for their treatment in India. T otal expenditure incurred by Missions towards assistance for Indian nationals in distress from the Indian Community Welfare Fund is approximately Rs. 22.5 Crores.

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## Annexure- I to Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 479

| Country        | Total Requests Received   |   Students |   Profession als |   Worker s |   Tourist s |   Visitor s |   Others |
|----------------|---------------------------|------------|------------------|------------|-------------|-------------|----------|
| UAE            | 305 056                   |       8729 |            30349 |     155974 |       19820 |       28790 |    60613 |
| Qatar          | 120 600                   |        894 |            10758 |      51878 |        7786 |        4606 |    44518 |
| Oman           | 100 604                   |       3513 |             9398 |      62513 |        1526 |        6842 |    16812 |
| Saudi Arabia   | 901 19                    |       1019 |             5004 |      62782 |         886 |       13804 |     6606 |
| Kuwait         | 807 32                    |       1149 |             2279 |      59351 |        1113 |        2462 |    14377 |
| USA            | 690 30                    |       8254 |            12044 |       3386 |       10794 |       17015 |    17410 |
| United Kingdom | 447 59                    |       9729 |            10473 |       2500 |        3914 |        5046 |    12957 |
| Bahrain        | 417 63                    |       2453 |             4564 |      25943 |         305 |        1488 |     7009 |
| Nepal          | 263 79                    |         84 |              133 |         73 |         116 |         121 |       15 |
| Singapore      | 218 32                    |       2127 |             4304 |       9426 |         876 |        1876 |     3133 |
| Australia      | 214 86 203                |       2431 |             2127 |        805 |        2323 |       11199 |     2597 |
| Canada         | 85 173                    |       3436 |             2359 |       1807 |        1294 |        5759 |     5721 |
| Germany        | 22                        |       1069 |             3197 |        626 |        4400 |        1446 |     6242 |
| Russia         | 156 15 149                |      12679 |              388 |       1153 |          63 |         121 |     1210 |
| Malaysia       | 34                        |        872 |               63 |        175 |        4447 |          71 |     9295 |
| Ukraine        | 145 85 142                |      13830 |               49 |         64 |          14 |          30 |      586 |
| Kyrgyzstan     | 49                        |      13591 |               15 |         46 |          22 |           3 |      572 |
| France         | 120 02                    |       2481 |             3093 |        960 |         771 |        1010 |     3679 |
| Nigeria        | 116 94                    |        529 |             4024 |       4293 |          17 |         221 |     2512 |
| Bangladesh     | 109 96                    |       1340 |             2724 |       2689 |        1100 |         210 |     2106 |
| Philippines    | 865 6                     |       5124 |              437 |        244 |         147 |          68 |     2613 |
| Iraq           | 735 7                     |          2 |              470 |       6684 |           0 |           9 |      192 |
| Maldives       | 609 3                     |         79 |              233 |       4652 |          95 |          35 |      999 |
| Kazakhstan     | 494 0                     |       2148 |              243 |       1314 |           2 |           7 |     1226 |
| Sri Lanka      | 489 4                     |         32 |              151 |       1452 |         317 |         197 |     2744 |
| Italy          | 457 7                     |        255 |              223 |        620 |          24 |          61 |     3394 |
| Bhutan         | 408 2                     |          4 |               23 |       3788 |           7 |          19 |       26 |
| Iran           | 393                       |        337 |               44 |        561 |         426 |          37 |     2525 |

| Netherlands                          | 0 392 8   | 436    | 1455   | 123   | 126   | 330   | 1445    |
|--------------------------------------|-----------|--------|--------|-------|-------|-------|---------|
| New Zeland                           | 357 3     | 185    | 56     | 594   | 138   | 2027  | 573     |
| Japan                                | 295 9     | 109    | 1375   | 157   | 80    | 186   | 1052    |
| Indonesia                            | 260 1     | 119    | 746    | 603   | 365   | 423   | 345     |
| South Africa                         | 245 4     | 118    | 821    | 312   | 128   | 553   | 520     |
| Kenya                                | 242 2     | 90     | 767    | 159   | 172   | 413   | 821     |
| China                                | 226 3     | 204    | 335    | 334   | 33    | 125   | 1232    |
| Thailand                             | 199 1     | 143    | 253    | 62    | 510   | 12    | 1011    |
|                                      | 169       |        |        |       |       |       | 335     |
| Sweden                               | 4         | 375    | 500    | 218   | 53    | 213   |         |
| Ghana                                | 165 9 161 | 59     | 473    | 649   | 39    | 223   | 213 288 |
| Uganda                               | 0 150     | 122    | 360    | 492   | 135   | 213   | 466     |
| Tanzania                             | 9 144     | 65     | 285    | 367   | 107   | 219   | 631     |
| Sudan                                | 2 136     | 9      | 38     | 574   | 146   | 43    | 347     |
| Tajikistan                           | 6 127     | 967    | 21     | 30 20 | 1 29  | 0 8   | 7       |
| Georgia                              | 4 122     | 1150   | 60     | 220   | 34    | 27    | 281     |
| Ethiopia                             | 3 121     | 2 1116 | 659 6  | 16    | 45    | 25    | 8       |
| Armenia Democratic Republic of Congo | 7 119 8   | 30     | 102    | 469   | 14    | 252   | 331     |
| Vietnam                              | 116 0     | 38     | 380    | 215   | 146   | 70    | 309     |
| Egypt                                | 111       | 10     | 134    | 99    | 68    | 11    | 765     |
|                                      | 5 110     |        |        |       |       |       | 21      |
| Jordan                               | 3 107     | 11     | 62     | 841   | 89    | 78    | 766     |
| Ireland Mauritius                    | 2 106 8   | 231 42 | 38 109 | 5 257 | 8 131 | 3 20  | 507     |
|                                      |           |        |        |       |       |       | 567     |
| Barbados                             | 956       | 16     | 0      | 0     | 0     | 0     |         |
| Algeria                              | 926       | 0      | 201    | 686   | 3     | 14    | 22      |
| Cote dIvoire                         | 890       | 20     | 259    | 352   | 29    | 96    | 125     |
| Pakistan                             | 834       | 195    | 0      | 0     | 0     | 639   | 0       |
| Seychelles                           | 825       | 5      | 83     | 317   | 2     | 5     | 413     |
| Anguilla                             | 787       | 1      | 352    | 277   | 43    | 27    | 87      |

| Sierra Leone      |   776 |   19 |   167 |   373 |   28 |   53 |   133 |
|-------------------|-------|------|-------|-------|------|------|-------|
| Brazil            |   725 |   32 |    85 |    24 |   15 |   20 |   548 |
| Myanmar           |   704 |    0 |     4 |     7 |  146 |    0 |   547 |
| Uzbekistan        |   696 |   78 |   245 |   101 |    7 |  217 |    48 |
| Lebanon Congo     |   637 |    2 |    11 |   572 |    9 |    0 |    43 |
| Republic of       |   598 |    9 |    56 |   393 |    7 |   70 |    63 |
| Poland            |   529 |  112 |    47 |   198 |   16 |   26 |   130 |
| Afghanistan       |   523 |    3 |   516 |     0 |    1 |    0 |     3 |
| Jamaica           |   521 |   36 |    70 |   366 |   14 |    0 |    35 |
| Norway            |   509 |    9 |    27 |   263 |  157 |    0 |    35 |
| Spain             |   480 |  123 |    37 |     5 |   18 |   22 |   274 |
| Belarus           |   467 |  191 |     0 |     1 |  172 |    0 |   103 |
| Benin             |   465 |   24 |   193 |   127 |    3 |   49 |    68 |
| Belgium           |   415 |   41 |   168 |    38 |   21 |   47 |    98 |
| Mexico            |   406 |   54 |   214 |    11 |   13 |   34 |    80 |
| Israel            |   375 |  107 |    51 |   137 |    7 |   25 |    48 |
| Mauritania        |   361 |    0 |    35 |   264 |   31 |   19 |    12 |
| Cambodia          |   328 |    3 |    18 |   219 |   48 |   37 |     3 |
| Suriname          |   325 |    0 |     0 |     0 |    1 |    0 |   324 |
| Brunei Darussalam |   321 |    3 |     4 |   119 |  186 |    7 |     2 |
| Guinea            |   314 |    1 |    67 |    74 |    1 |    4 |   167 |
| Senegal           |   312 |    5 |    84 |    91 |   69 |   28 |    34 |
| Zambia            |   294 |    0 |    24 |     3 |    1 |   15 |   251 |
| Bulgaria          |   291 |  280 |     3 |     6 |    0 |    2 |     0 |
| Malawi            |   291 |   12 |    71 |    59 |   86 |   24 |    39 |
| South Sudan       |   280 |    0 |    59 |    89 |    0 |    0 |   132 |
| Togo              |   257 |    0 |    46 |    35 |    9 |   22 |   144 |
| Turkey            |   254 |   23 |    23 |    52 |   93 |    2 |    61 |
| Greece            |   245 |    5 |     4 |     2 |    1 |    3 |   230 |
| South Korea       |   244 |   26 |    58 |    18 |    7 |   10 |   122 |
| Finland           |   229 |   38 |   114 |     8 |   20 |   32 |    17 |
| Botswana          |   213 |    2 |    34 |    75 |    0 |   36 |    65 |

| Fiji                      |   213 |   1 |   44 |   15 |   7 |   3 |   142 |
|---------------------------|-------|-----|------|------|-----|-----|-------|
| Mozambiqu e               |   209 |   0 |    4 |  135 |   2 |  23 |    45 |
| Cameroon                  |   200 |   6 |   55 |   75 |  10 |  24 |    30 |
| Korea Republic of (South) |   185 |  10 |    2 |    1 |   0 |   1 |   144 |
| Madagascar                |   184 |   0 |   22 |   94 |  39 |   3 |    26 |
| Somalia                   |   178 |   2 |   45 |   55 |   8 |   8 |    60 |
| Portugal                  |   161 |  27 |   31 |   45 |  30 |   1 |    27 |
| St Denis                  |   157 |   1 |    0 |   17 |   5 |   0 |   134 |
| Cyprus                    |   138 |  79 |   21 |   25 |   3 |   2 |     8 |
| Malta                     |   131 |  27 |   15 |   61 |   1 |   5 |    21 |
| Djibouti                  |   121 |   0 |   20 |   21 |   4 |  68 |     8 |
| Latvia                    |   103 |  99 |    1 |    1 |   0 |   1 |     1 |
| Morocco                   |    99 |   0 |   72 |    8 |  10 |   9 |     0 |
| Switzerland               |    92 |  14 |   19 |    0 |   5 |  12 |    42 |
| Rwanda                    |    88 |   0 |    5 |    0 |   0 |   5 |    78 |
| Denmark                   |    80 |   2 |   16 |    3 |   6 |  20 |    33 |
| Turkmenista n             |    80 |   0 |   41 |   32 |   0 |   0 |     7 |
| Chile                     |    72 |   1 |    1 |   10 |  18 |   3 |    39 |
| Trinidad and Tobago       |    72 |   3 |   15 |   12 |  23 |  13 |     5 |
| Colombia                  |    68 |   7 |   42 |    3 |   7 |   1 |     8 |
| Peru                      |    68 |   0 |    5 |    1 |  42 |   2 |    18 |
| Azerbaijan                |    59 |  45 |    9 |    0 |   5 |   0 |     0 |
| Mali                      |    57 |   0 |   11 |   10 |  12 |  21 |     3 |
| Hungary                   |    48 |  34 |    5 |    3 |   1 |   2 |     3 |
| Papua New Guinea          |    45 |   1 |    0 |    1 |   0 |   0 |    43 |
| Tunisia                   |    41 |   3 |   28 |    1 |   1 |   4 |     4 |
| St Lucia                  |    38 |  33 |    0 |    1 |   0 |   0 |     4 |
| Chad                      |    32 |   0 |   17 |   10 |   0 |   1 |     4 |
| Dominica Ecuador          |    32 |   0 |   12 |   11 |   2 |   1 |     6 |
| Eritrea                   |    31 |   0 |    2 |   29 |   0 |   0 |     0 |
| Lithuania                 |    31 |  28 |    1 |    0 |   0 |   0 |     2 |

| Argentina             |   28 |   2 |   11 |   0 |   1 |   2 |   12 |
|-----------------------|------|-----|------|-----|-----|-----|------|
| Burkina Faso          |   27 |   0 |    6 |   9 |   7 |   3 |    2 |
| Panama                |   23 |   3 |    6 |   2 |   6 |   4 |    2 |
| Croatia               |   19 |   2 |    1 |   8 |   0 |   8 |    0 |
| Burundi               |   18 |   0 |    0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   18 |
| Czech Republic        |   13 |   5 |    1 |   3 |   1 |   3 |    0 |
| Slovak Republic       |   12 |   9 |    1 |   2 |   0 |   0 |    0 |
| Syria                 |   11 |   0 |    7 |   0 |   0 |   0 |    4 |
| Guatemala             |    9 |   0 |    8 |   0 |   0 |   0 |    1 |
| Guyana                |    9 |   7 |    0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |    2 |
| St Vincent Grenadines |    8 |   7 |    0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |    1 |
| Equatorial Guinea     |    7 |   0 |    1 |   5 |   0 |   0 |    1 |
| Iceland               |    5 |   0 |    1 |   0 |   4 |   0 |    0 |
| Union of Comoros      |    5 |   0 |    0 |   0 |   5 |   0 |    0 |
| Venezuela             |    4 |   0 |    0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |    4 |
| Namibia               |    3 |   0 |    0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |    3 |
| Slovenia              |    2 |   0 |    0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |    1 |
| Belize                |    1 |   1 |    0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |    0 |
| Laos                  |    1 |   0 |    0 |   1 |   0 |   0 |    0 |

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