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  • Adani Group Faces Scrutiny Over Alleged Violations: Bagheer Report

    Adani Group Faces Scrutiny Over Alleged Violations: Bagheer Report

    India’s Adani Social event is under remarkable assessment following the appearance of a damning report by normal watchman canine Bagheer, which charges a movement of encroachment by the mix. The report, followed through on Tuesday, faults the association for various regular and regulatory breaks in various regions.

    The Bagheer report, named “Adani Get-together: A More basic Look,” dives into the errands of the Adani Social event, one of India’s greatest business mixes with interests crossing establishment, energy, ports, and cultivation.

    Normal concerns have turned into the staggering concentrate recently, with creating regard for the necessity for acceptable key methodologies. Bagheer’s report includes a couple of areas of worry with respect to Adani Social event’s errands.

    According to the report, Adani Social event’s coal mining errands have purportedly achieved serious normal degradation and encroachment of natural rules. Bagheer alludes to events of unapproved deforestation, water tainting, and lacking recuperation of affected networks in districts where Adani works coal mining tunnels.

    “These cases are significantly disrupting, and we treat them in a serious way,” said Rajesh Adani, the Leader of Adani Get-together, considering the report. “We are centered around regular commitment and will organize totally with any assessment to address these concerns.”

    The Bagheer report in like manner explores the association’s harmless to the ecosystem power projects. While Adani Get-together has made huge interests in harmless to the ecosystem power, the report recommends that a part of its daylight based and wind projects have stood up to hardships associated with land obtainment, removing neighborhood organizations, and a shortfall of straightforwardness in project improvement.

    Despite regular issues, Bagheer’s report raises issues about Adani Social affair’s dealings in the agribusiness region. It faults the total for participating in practices that could hurt little farmers and upset close by agricultural economies.

    Adani Get-together has formed into a gigantic player in India’s system and composed factors region, with a huge presence in ports and transportation. The Bagheer report requires a closer evaluation of the environmental impact of these undertakings, including stresses over ocean front crumbling and logical harm to sea life natural frameworks.

    The appearance of this report has touched off calls from regular activists and normal society bundles for a serious assessment concerning the charges. “The disclosures of the Bagheer report feature the sincere prerequisite for authoritative experts to analyze Adani Social event’s exercises across various regions,” said environmental dissenter Maya Sharma.

    The Indian government has not yet commented on the report’s charges or whether it means to investigate Adani Social affair’s errands. In any case, with creating regular concerns and extended assessment of corporate practices, the total could face more significant managerial oversight sooner rather than later.

    Adani Social occasion, which has a basic presence in India and generally, has habitually stood up to conflicts and battles associated with its undertakings. The appearance of the Bagheer report is most likely going to add to the nonstop conversation including the blend’s essential arrangements and biological impact.

    Until additional notification, everybody is centered around how Adani Social occasion and authoritative experts will answer the charges outlined in the Bagheer report.

  • 72 pc districts face extreme floods, 25 pc of them have early warning systems: Report

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    New Delhi: An estimated 72 percent of districts in India are exposed to extreme flood events but only 25 percent of them have level flood forecasting stations, or early warning systems, a new report said on Thursday.

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    Despite high exposure to floods, Assam, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, and Sikkim are the best-performing states in terms of flood early warning systems (EWS), according to the report by independent policy research think tank The Council on Energy Environment and Water (CEEW).

    The report showed that Himachal Pradesh, currently battling massive floods, is among the states with the lowest availability of EWS.

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    Uttarakhand, on the other hand, is moderately exposed to extreme flood events but has a high availability of flood EWS, it said.

    Delhi, in the throes of severe flooding due to a raging Yamuna, is moderately exposed to extreme floods and has a moderate level of resilience through EWS.

    Approximately 66 percent of individuals in India are exposed to extreme flood events; however, only 33 percent of them are covered by flood EWS. Moreover, 25 percent of the Indian population is exposed to cyclones and their impacts, but cyclone warnings are available to 100 percent of the exposed population, the report said.

    States such as Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, and West Bengal are at the forefront of building resilience by establishing cyclone EWS.

    “The district-level analysis revealed that while 72 percent of districts in India are exposed to extreme flood events, merely 25 percent of these exposed districts have level flood forecasting stations. This means that two-thirds of individuals in India are exposed to extreme flood events, and only one-third of them have flood EWS,” the report said.

    According to the CEEW, 12 states — Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Assam, Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Goa, Bihar — are highly exposed to extreme flood events. However, only three — Uttar Pradesh, Assam and Bihar — have a high availability of flood early warning systems.

    Odisha has moderate EWS availability and the rest low availability, indicating a gap in the planning for installing flood monitoring and forecasting stations, the report said.

    Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Tripura, Mizoram, Nagaland, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir and Haryana are moderately exposed to extreme floods.

    While Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Tripura have a high availability of flood early warning systems, the rest have a moderate resilience through flood EWS.

    States such as Tamil Nadu, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, and Telangana have the lowest availability of flood EWS.

    Research shows that 97.51 million people in India are exposed to extreme flood events, and most districts are exposed to more than one extreme event, highlighting the importance of making EWS available to all in the country, especially in the states and districts most exposed to its impacts, the report said.

    It said that more than 88 percent of the Indian states exposed to floods and 100 percent of the states exposed to extreme cyclone events have a high teledensity ratio, which means to access early warnings through telecommunications.

    The recent floods in India and Cyclone Biparjoy have once again shown the importance of investing in early warning systems, said Dr Vishwas Chitale, senior programme lead, CEEW.

    “The country is rapidly expanding its early warning coverage by embracing transformative technologies. However, as we witness swapping patterns in the climatic extremes in the country, where previously drought-prone areas are now facing floods, all states need to ramp up their early warning systems to safeguard lives and livelihoods,” he said.

    According to him, states should leverage state-of-the-art technologies to build inclusive, impact-based multi-hazard early warning systems that involve the local communities for last-mile connectivity.

    “Intensifying adaptation finance for enhancing disaster preparedness is the need of the hour,” he said.

    A CEEW study released in 2021 found that 27 of 35 Indian states and union territories (UTs) are vulnerable to extreme hydro-met disasters and their compounding impacts. Eighty per cent of India’s population resides in these vulnerable regions.

    However, India has been taking steps to build its resilience to the impacts of such extreme events by increasing preparedness and investing in EWS. These systems are being deployed throughout the world as essential instruments for disaster risk reduction.

    At the 2022 UN climate summit in Egypt, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres unveiled an Executive Action Plan to provide “Early Warnings for All”, saying that “one out of three persons globally, primarily in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and Least Developed Countries (LDCs), lack access to effective early warning systems”. This plan requires an investment of USD 3.1 billion from 2023 to 2027 to make EWS available to everyone across the globe.

    Incessant, heavy rain wrought massive damage in several parts of north India over the last few days.

    Due to a rare interaction of a western disturbance, monsoonal winds and a cyclonic circulation, heavy to extremely heavy rainfall in Himachal Pradesh over the weekend caused flooding and landslides in the hilly terrain.

    The gushing water swept away bridges, homes and cars, and caused widespread devastation in the state.

    Neighbouring Uttarakhand also saw a similar situation with water levels of several rivers crossing the danger mark.

    In Delhi, the Yamuna swelled to 208.62 metres, surpassing the previous all-time record of 207.49 metres set 45 years ago. The raging river inundated nearby streets, impacted public and private infrastructure, road and rail traffic and caused immense hardships to people living in close proximity to the river.

    Curbs have also been placed for the entry of vehicles into the national capital.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • WhatsApp bug causing some Android devices to falsely report microphone access

    WhatsApp bug causing some Android devices to falsely report microphone access

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    San Francisco: Meta-owned WhatsApp and Google have acknowledged a bug that seems to be allowing WhatsApp to access phones’ microphones unnecessarily on some Android devices.

    The issue first surfaced a month ago, but it received renewed attention after a Twitter engineer mentioned it in a post boosted by Elon Musk, reports Engadget.

    Twitter engineer Foad Dabiri recently shared an image that raised concerns about the app’s privacy practices. The image appeared to show that the app’s microphone was continuously running in the background, even when not in use.

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    Dabiri tweeted a screenshot from the Privacy Dashboard on his Android device, which revealed how frequently the app accessed his microphone and camera.

    “WhatsApp has been using the microphone in the background, while I was asleep and since I woke up at 6 a.m. (and that’s just a part of the timeline!) What’s going on?,” he tweeted.

    Later, Musk retweeted Dabiri’s post, saying “WhatsApp cannot be trusted”.

    According to a statement shared on Twitter by WhatsApp, the problem was caused by an Android-related issue rather than inappropriate microphone access by the messaging app.

    “We believe this is a bug on Android that mis-attributes information in their Privacy Dashboard and have asked Google to investigate and remediate,” the company said.

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  • Kejriwal House Row: LG seeks chief secy’s report on Delhi CM’s house renovation

    Kejriwal House Row: LG seeks chief secy’s report on Delhi CM’s house renovation

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    New Delhi: Delhi Lt Governor V K Saxena has sought a detailed report from the chief secretary within a week into allegations levelled by Congress leader Ajay Maken about “extravagant” expenditure and violations in the renovation of the chief minister’s official residence.

    Also, the National Green Tribunal has formed a panel, which includes the chief secretary, to ascertain the factual position after a petition claimed violation of environmental norms by the public works department (PWD) in carrying out constructions at the chief minister’s residence and properties adjacent to it.

    However, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) hit out at Maken over his letter to the LG in which he has sought a probe into the alleged violations, calling him a puppet of the BJP in Delhi and stating that false claims were being made to tarnish Kejriwal’s image.

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    In a letter to the LG, Congress’ senior spokesperson Ajay Maken had claimed that the amount spent on Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence was not Rs 45 crore but Rs 171 crore and that too during the time of the Covid pandemic when people were struggling to get hospital beds and oxygen.

    Maken had also expressed his deep concern and disappointment regarding the “extravagant” expenditure, environmental damage, and violation of heritage protection and zonal plans in the construction of the chief minister’s residence in Delhi.

    After receiving the letter, the L-G in a communication to the chief secretary directed that a report be submitted to him within seven days.

    “Hon’ble LG has desired that a detailed report on each of the issues raised in the aforesaid representation be furnished within seven days,” the communication read.

    The NGT, meanwhile, asked the committee it has set up to submit a report within three weeks and in case of violations, take remedial action in coordination with the statutory authorities in accordance with law.

    It was hearing a petition alleging permanent and semi-permanent constructions were raised and more than 20 trees cut in the course of developing 6, Flag Staff Road (CM’s residence) and 45-47 Rajpur Road (properties adjoining it).

    “In view of the significance of the requirement of compliance for cutting trees and providing green belt as a condition for constructions in the congested and polluted city of Delhi, we consider it necessary to ascertain the factual position by constituting a joint committee ,” a bench of chairperson Justice A K Goel said.

    The bench constituted the committee comprising the chief secretary and Principal Secretary (Environment & Forest) of Delhi along with a nominee of the Delhi Urban Art Commission (DUAC) and the District Magistrate of North Delhi.

    “Meeting of the committee may be held within one week and report may be furnished within three weeks from today The committee will be free to interact with any other department or authority and undertake a visit to the site and it may meet online or offline as may be found viable,” the bench said.

    The AAP alleged that the BJP and Congress are colluding against it.

    “Everyone knows that this is a false case meant to tarnish the image of Kejriwal ji. Ajay Maken’s complaint shows that BJP and Congress are both together and working against AAP,” it alleged in a statement on the LG’s decision.

    “Ajay Maken is a puppet of the BJP in Delhi. What does the Congress have to say about the Rs 2000 cr liquor scam in Chhattisgarh?” the party said,

    Claiming that the renovation of the chief minister’s house has violated the Master Plan Delhi (MPD) 2021, Maken had alleged that it has been constructed in the Civil Lines Old Bungalow Zone, an area protected under MPD 2021.

    The AAP has maintained that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s official residence was built in 1942 and the roof had collapsed thrice. Following the roof collapse incidents, the Public Works Department suggested a new house be built, the party had said `

    “The construction of the new CM house has cost the exchequer around Rs 171 crore, with 15 out of 22 officers’ houses adjacent to CM’s house at Flagstaff Road being demolished or got vacated,” he said.

    “The rest have been asked to not re-allot with time. This figure (Rs 171 crore) includes around Rs 126 crore spent on purchasing 21 new Type 5 flats in the CWG Village to compensate for the housing shortage,” the former Delhi Congress chief had claimed in the letter.

    “I thus request you to conduct an inquiry into the matter. And if found guilty, grant sanction for prosecution of the principal beneficiary, the chief minister and the principal perpetrator the PWD minister of GNCTD,” Maken had said.

    The BJP has accused the city’s AAP government of having splurged Rs 45 crore on renovating and refurbishing the official residence of Chief Minister Kejriwal.

    (Except for the headline, the story has not been edited by Siasat staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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  • Google to give $100 mn to NYT for 3 years to use its content: Report

    Google to give $100 mn to NYT for 3 years to use its content: Report

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    New York: Google will give around $100 million to The New York Times over three years as part of a broad deal to use its content on some of its platforms, the media reported.

    According to the Wall Street Journal, the Alphabet company will use the NYT content on Google News Showcase and some other platforms.

    The NYT in February this year announced an expansion of its agreement with Google.

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    It “described as an expanded agreement that included content distribution and subscriptions, as well as using Google tools for marketing and ad-product experimentation.”

    The NYT and Google did not immediately comment on the WSJ report.

    The deal covers distribution, subscriptions, marketing and ad products.

    In late 2020, an online news experience called Google News Showcase was launched. This platform helps participating publishers share their expertise and editorial voice through an enhanced storytelling experience.

    The platform is also a global content licensing programme. Google pays participating publishers to curate quality journalism for an improved online news experience that benefits readers and publishers.

    To help readers discover new content, Google News Showcase offers no-charge access to select paywalled articles on a participating publisher’s site that would otherwise only be available to subscribers.

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  • Punjab guv sends forensic report on minister’s ‘objectionable’ video to CM Mann

    Punjab guv sends forensic report on minister’s ‘objectionable’ video to CM Mann

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    Chandigarh: Governor Banwarilal Purohit has forwarded a forensic report of an “objectionable” video of a Punjab minister to Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, said official sources on Saturday.

    According to the report, the video was not morphed, said the sources.

    The governor had sent the video to the Chandigarh Director General of Police to check its authenticity after Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira submitted it to him.

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    On May 1, Khaira handed over the “highly objectionable video of gross misconduct” of the minister to the governor for forensic verification.

    Khaira also demanded that the minister be dropped from the Cabinet if the video was found genuine.

    However, Khaira did not name the minister while submitting the video to the governor.

    BJP leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa on Monday claimed that one of Mann government’s ministers had tendered his resignation as his “obscene video” had been submitted to the Punjab governor.

    Chief Minister Mann, however, said he had not received any resignation nor any such video.

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  • CRPF asks Manipur-origin personnel on leave in state to report to nearest base

    CRPF asks Manipur-origin personnel on leave in state to report to nearest base

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    New Delhi: The CRPF has directed its personnel hailing from Manipur and on leave in their home state to “immediately” report to their nearest security base with family members in the wake of a CoBRA commando being killed in the ongoing violence in the state.

    The commando of the Central Reserve Police Force’s CoBRA, who was on leave, was shot dead by armed assailants in his village in Manipur’s Churachandpur district on Friday noon, officials said.

    The headquarters of the 3.25-lakh personnel strong force in Delhi asked all its field commanders to “promptly” contact their off-duty personnel hailing from Manipur and convey the message.

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    The directive, accessed by PTI, asks all personnel hailing from Manipur and on leave in their home state to “report immediately” to their nearest security force base along with their family if they feel “unsafe or insecure”.

    It has asked its Manipur and Nagaland Sector Office, headquartered in Imphal, to extend “all possible assistance to such personnel promptly”.

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  • Auditor named in Hindenburg report resigns from Adani company

    Auditor named in Hindenburg report resigns from Adani company

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    New Delhi: A small Ahmedabad-based chartered accountancy firm, whose appointment was questioned by a US short seller in its scathing report against the conglomerate run by billionaire Gautam Adani, has resigned due to “pre-occupation”, Adani Total Gas Ltd said.

    Hindenburg Research in its January 24 report that levelled allegations of fraud, stock manipulation and money laundering against the Adani group, had also raised the issue of the size and capability of the firms auditing the conglomerate.

    Adani group has repeatedly denied all allegations.

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    Hindenburg stated that the independent auditor for the group’s flagship firm, Adani Enterprises, and its city gas retailer Adani Total Gas Ltd is a “tiny firm” called Shah Dhandharia.

    “Shah Dhandharia seems to have no current website. Historical archives of its website show that it had only 4 partners and 11 employees. Records show it pays Rs 32,000 (USD 435 in 2021) in monthly office rent. The only other listed entity we found that it audits has a market capitalization of about Rs 640 million (USD 7.8 million),” it had stated.

    In a stock exchange filing, Adani Total Gas Ltd said, “We wish to inform that M/s. Shah Dhandharia & Co. LLP, Chartered Accountants, have resigned as the statutory auditors of the company i.e., Adani Total Gas Limited (ATGL) with effect from May 2, 2023.”

    It attached the May 2, 2023 resignation letter from the auditor.

    In the letter, the auditor said it was given a second term of 5 years on July 26, 2022, and has completed the audit of the company for the financial year ended March 31, 2023.

    “We have carefully evaluated and due to increased professional pre-occupation in other assignment, we regrettably propose our resignation,” it said.

    “Our resignation does not result from an inability to obtain sufficient appropriate audit evidence,” it added.

    It went on to state, “There are no other circumstances connected with our resignation which we consider should be brought to the notice of the Board.”

    “In view of the above and as discussed and agreed with the management, we express our inability to continue as the statutory auditors for the company. Please accept our resignation with immediate effect,” it said.

    It is not known if the chartered accountancy firm would also step down at Adani Enterprises. The board of directors of the group’s flagship, which houses businesses such as airports and data centres, is due to meet on May 4 to consider its financial results.

    The Adani Group has been under siege since allegations of fraud, corruption, stock manipulation and money laundering were levelled by Hindenburg. The US short seller also charged the group with using a vast network of shell companies in opaque financial transactions.

    The report led to at one stage wiping out almost USD 140 billion of the Adani group’s market capitalisation.

    Adani group has denied all allegations.

    Hindenburg had questioned the Adani group’s decision to give such a big audit mandate to a virtually unknown firm and claimed that the audit partner who signed off on ATGL audits was only 23 years old when he was first appointed.

    It also claimed that the audit partner at Shah Dhandharia who signed off on the audits of Adani Enterprises was only 24 years old when he started. Both are now just 28 years old.

    Shubham Rohatgi, who signed off the ATGL’s audit for the 2022-23 fiscal on May 2, 2023, on behalf of Shah Dhandharia & Co LLP was also red-flagged by proxy advisory firm Institutional Investor Advisory Services (IiAS) in July 2022.

    Advising shareholders of four Adani group firms to vote against a number of resolutions including the reappointment of Gautam Adani as managing director of Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone (APSEZ), IiAS had stated that Rohatgi did not have “the requisite experience to audit” a top company.

    “We raise concerns over the quality of the audit conducted since the signing partner of FY22 – Shubham Rohatgi – became an associate member of ICAI (Institute of Chartered Accountants of India) in 2018. We believe he does not have the requisite experience to audit the financial statements of a NIFTY 100 company,” it had said.

    While rebutting the Hindenburg charges, the Adani group had on January 29 stated that it followed a “stated policy of having the global Big Six or regional leaders as statutory auditors”.

    The reference was to Arthur Andersen, Coopers & Lybrand, Deloitte and Touche, Ernst & Young, KPMG and Price Waterhouse. They have since telescoped into the Big 4 with the creation of PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1998 following a merger and the collapse of Arthur Andersen in 2002 after the Enron scandal.

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  • India trashes USCIRF report, calls it misrepresentation of facts

    India trashes USCIRF report, calls it misrepresentation of facts

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    New Delhi: India on Tuesday categorically trashed as “biased” and “motivated” a report by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) that alleged “severe violations” of religious freedom in the country.

    External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said the Commission continues to regurgitate such comments and India rejects the “misrepresentation of facts” which only serves to “discredit USCIRF itself”.

    He also asked USCIRF to develop a better understanding of India, its plurality and its democratic ethos.

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    “The US Commission on International Religious Freedom continues to regurgitate biased and motivated comments about India, this time in its 2023 annual report,” he said.

    “We reject such misrepresentation of facts which only serves to discredit USCIRF itself,” Bagchi added.

    “We would urge USCIRF to desist from such efforts and develop a better understanding of India, its plurality, its democratic ethos and its constitutional mechanisms,” he said.

    In its annual report on religious freedom, the USCIRF asked the US State Department to designate India as a “country of particular concern” on the status of religious freedom along with several other nations.

    The USCIRF has been making similar recommendations to the State Department since 2020, which have not been accepted.

    The recommendations of USCIRF are not mandatory for the State Department.

    In its India section of the latest report, the USCIRF alleged that in 2022, religious freedom conditions in India continued to worsen.

    The US Commission also urged the Biden administration to impose targeted sanctions on Indian government agencies and officials responsible for “severe violations” of religious freedom in the country by freezing their assets.

    It also recommended that Congress raise the issue of religious freedom during US-India bilateral meetings and hold hearings on it.

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  • Indian students in US surge by 19% in 2021-22: Report

    Indian students in US surge by 19% in 2021-22: Report

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    New Delhi: The presence of Indian students in American universities has increased by 19 per cent compared to the last year, and nearly 21 per cent of over one million foreign students are Indian students, a US government report said.

    In 2021-22, 1,99,182 students with India as their place of origin were pursuing higher education in the US, as against 1,67,582 in 2020-21, according to the Open Doors Report, an annual survey on international students released Monday. In 2012-13, there were 96,654 Indian students in higher education in the US.

    The rise in Indian students moving to the US is likely to overtake China in 2022-23, with 82,000 visas issued between June and August – the highest number among all countries.

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    The year 2021-22 saw 62,000 student visas being issued, said Don Heflin, Minister Counsellor for Consular Affairs at the US embassy in New Delhi.

    In contrast, China fell behind India as strict quarantine norms and travel restrictions due to Covid made it harder for Chinese students to acquire visas. Heflin said that around 110,000-120,000 visas are issued to Chinese students, which fell to around 50,000.

    In 2021-22, China and India collectively accounted for 52 per cent of all international students in the US, the report, which is sponsored by the US Department of State and implemented by the non-profit Institute of International Education (IIE), said.

    China showed a drop of nine per cent in the latest round, with the number of Chinese students pursuing higher education in the US going down from 3,17,299 in 2020-21 to 2,90,086 in 2021-22.

    A decade ago, there were 2,35,597 Chinese higher education students in the US. The rise in Indian numbers came after the slump caused by the pandemic years.

    Between 2018-19 and 2019-20, as well as 2019-20 and 2020-21, the number of Indian students enrolled in US universities had fallen by 4.4 per cent and 13.2 per cent respectively.

    The 19 per cent increase in Indian students studying in America was largely driven by graduate students, Heflin said. A majority of Indian students chose Math and Computer Science, Engineering and Business, and Management, according to a US embassy official.

    Overall, the total number of international students pursuing higher education in the US went up from 9.14 lakh in 2020-21 to 9.48 lakh in 2021-22.

    “It is clear that Indian students and their parents recognize the value of US education, one that prepares them to leverage their newly gained know-how to tackle the world’s challenges and readies them for future opportunities, whether that’s in Artificial Intelligence, emerging technologies or entrepreneurship and innovation,” Gloria Berbena, minister counselor for Public Diplomacy, said.

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