CNN-News18 had earlier reported that the variety of Indian college students in Canada whose mortal stays are returned to India every month ranges from 5 to eight on common. (Shutterstock Photo)
The important causes of deaths of Indian college students overseas embrace well being points, accidents, pure deaths
In the final 5 years, 403 Indian college students have died whereas finding out overseas resulting from varied causes, together with well being, accidents, pure deaths, the Ministry of External Affairs knowledge exhibits. Canada has the very best variety of demise circumstances of Indian college students at 91.
V Muraleedharan, the Minister of State for External Affairs, informed Rajya Sabha that 403 incidents of demise of Indian college students overseas have been reported since 2018.
Besides Canada, different nations the place the demise of Indian college students is excessive are the UK, Russia, US and Australia at 48, 40, 36 and 35.
Germany (20), Italy (10), Philippines (10), Cyprus (14) and Ukraine (21) had been different nations reporting excessive variety of deaths of Indian college students. Other nations reporting fewer deaths are Belgium (1), Bulgaria (1), China (9), Czech Republic (3), Egypt (3), Finland (4), France (4), Guyana (1), Kazakhstan (5), Kenya (1), Korea (ROK) (3), Kyrgyzstan (9), Malta (1), Norway (1), Pakistan (1), Qatar (9), Romania (2), South Africa (1), Spain (3), Suriname (3), Sweden & Latvia (2), Switzerland (1) and Taiwan (6).
News18 had earlier reported that the variety of Indian college students in Canada whose mortal stays are returned to India every month ranges from 5 to eight on common. Some of the foremost causes behind these deaths had been suicides, accidents, killings, drug overdoses, coronary heart assaults, and drowning.
“We’re about four to five repatriations a month right now,” mentioned Kamal Bhardwaj, president and proprietor of Lotus Funeral & Cremation Center in Etobicoke, Ontario. Lotus Funeral Center has been repatriating the stays of Indian residents from throughout Canada for years on the request of the Consulate General of India and different members of the Indian diaspora.
As per the declare of the funeral residence in a Canadian Media Report, 33 our bodies of scholars had been despatched to India final yr in comparison with 11 in 2021. The quantity saved rising from eight in 2018 to 16 in 2019 and 12 in 2020.
According to the info beforehand launched by the MEA, an estimated 1.83 lakh Indian college students had been enrolled in Canada final yr, 4.65 lakh within the US, 1 lakh in Australia, 55,400 in UK and 18,300 in Russia.
Source: www.news18.com
