Good news to immigrants in India

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Pravasi Teerth Darshan Yojana on 22 January 2019.

So, What is Pravasi Teerth Darshan Yojana ?
                         A group of Indian diaspora will be taken on a government sponsored tour of religious places in India twice a year.The first batch of 40 people participated in the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2019 held in Varanasi will begin their tour.

•  They will be taken  on tour of  all religious places in india twice a year.
•  The government will bear all the expenses including the airfare from their country of       residence.
•  All people of Indian origin aged 45 to 65 can apply and a group will be selected out of them with first preference given to people from Girmitiya countries such as Mauritius, Fiji, Suriname, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica.

What are Girmitiya countries ?

                         The term Girmitiya was coined by the father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi who referred to himself as first Girmitiya. The countries where these indentured Indian labourers settled are known as Girmitiya countries. 

                          Girmitiya’s are the descendants of indentured Indian labourers brought to Fiji, Mauritius, South Africa, East Africa, the Malay Peninsula, Caribbean and South America (Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana and Suriname) to work on sugarcane plantations for the prosperity of the European settlers. 

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