The State home department in collaboration with the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, held the Videsh Sampark program for the first time in the state. The programme was held here at Agartala State Guest House.
Secretary of the state home department P K Chakraborty, DGP, Intelligence Anurag, Chairperson of Tripura Commission for Women Jharna Debbarma, secretaries of various departments of the state government, Joint Secretary (Diaspora Engagement) of the Ministry of External Affairs, Draksha Banerjee, Regional Passport Officer Ashish Midda, External Affairs Ministry Undersecretary Rusal Garg and other officials of the Government of India were present and participated in the event.
The event featured in-depth dialogue to enhance awareness among stakeholders and officials of the State Government about the Ministry's programmes, schemes and initiatives with regard to consular, passport and diaspora issues to provide safe and legal migration. A new initiative featured presentations on trade and investment issues.
The Joint Secretary (Diaspora Engagement) of the Ministry of External Affairs, Draksha Banerjee said that this event is being organized since 2017 to bring the Union Ministry of External Affairs on the same platform with the administration of each state of the country. This awareness program is organized to assist the state government in providing necessary facilities, consular services and preventing infiltration to Indians living, working and studying abroad, he added.
He said that currently there are about 3.5 million Indians staying abroad and most of them are in the United States. The United Arab Emirates has the largest number of Middle Eastern countries. He also discussed in detail how the Union Ministry of External Affairs supports and provides various facilities to Indian students working abroad and studying abroad.
Interacting with reporters after the event, Union Joint Secretary Dharana Banerjee said that the present central government is completely trying to prevent illegal infiltration. In this case, the state and central government have to work as a coalition. The Secretary of the State Department of Home Affairs P K Chakraborty briefed the representatives of the Ministry of External Affairs about Rohingya infiltration into the state and other issues.
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