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Tibetan refugee self-help center in Darjeeling, West Bengal. Since its independence in 1947, India has accepted various groups of refugees from neighbouring countries, including partition refugees from former British Indian territories that now constitute Pakistan and Bangladesh, Tibetan refugees that arrived in 1959, Chakma refugees from present day Bangladesh in early 1960s, other ...
Visa requirements for Indian citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of India. As of 2025, Indian citizens have visa-free or visa on arrival access to 57 countries and territories, ranking the Indian passport 85 th in the world according to the Henley Passport Index [ 1 ] , down from ...
Maher (Marathi: My mother's home) is an UN-registered, interfaith and caste-free Indian non-governmental organization based near Pune.The objective of the organization is to provide shelter and support to destitute, exploited, battered women, men and children.
The Shelter Cluster is one of eleven sectorial coordination groups [1] [2] that are part of the Cluster Approach, that followed the Humanitarian Response Review in 2005. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Currently 43 humanitarian organizations are part of the Shelter Cluster at global level, [ 5 ] more than 500 organizations coordinate shelter assistance with the ...
Since the BJP government came into power in India in 2014, India has spent ₹ 5.8 billion (US$67 million) on cow shelters in between the years 2014 and 2016. [1]To prevent unproductive cows being sent to the abattoir, the government started the Rashtriya Gokul Mission in mid-2014, a national program that involves constructing havens for retired cows.
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According to Foreigners (Amendment) Order, 2015 persons belonging to minority communities in Bangladesh and Pakistan, namely, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians who were compelled to seek shelter in India due to religious persecution or fear of religious persecution and entered into India on or before 31 December 2014 with ...
Homelessness is in part a direct result of families migrating from rural to urban cities and urbanization. [12] Migration to urban areas can occur for a variety of reasons ranging from loss of land, need for sustainable employment, lack of clean water and other resources, and in some cases like the Bargi Dam Project, loss of all property and complete displacement. [13]