2024-07-14 17:12:10
New Delhi: Earlier, the desire of Indians to work abroad and now to settle abroad has increased a lot. According to the recent data, the people of Gujarat are not liking the Indian climate. In the last one year, the number of people from Gujarat leaving Indian citizenship has doubled. Let us know about those 3 states of the country where people are competing to leave Indian citizenship. People of Gujarat are liking to settle in America, United Kingdom (UK), Canada and Australia more than India. According to the report of Times of India, in the year 2023, 485 people of Gujarat have left Indian citizenship. Whereas in 2022 this figure was 241. Let us tell you that most of the Gujaratis leaving India are people in the age group of 30-45 years.
Which are the 3 states where the most people left Indian citizenship?
According to parliamentary data, Delhi is the first state to give up Indian citizenship from 2014 to 2022, Punjab is second and Gujarat is third. According to the data, 60,414 people have given up Indian citizenship in Delhi from 2014 to 2022, 28,117 people in Punjab and 22,300 people in Gujarat. Whereas 485 people in Gujarat have given up Indian citizenship in 2023. In such a situation, Gujarat comes at third place.
Passport surrender figures may increase further by 2028
After Covid, there has been a sharp increase in the number of people surrendering their passports. A senior official, on the condition of anonymity, said that many young people go abroad for studies and settle there. The increasing number of such students increases the number of people surrendering their passports. Passport Advisor Ritesh Desai said that it is expected that by 2028, the number of people surrendering their passports will increase drastically because people who have reached abroad are taking citizenship there.
Number of people giving up Indian citizenship from 2014 to 2023:
2014: 1,29,328
2015: 1,31,489
2016: 1,41,603
2017: 1,33,049
2018: 1,34,561
2019: 1,44,017
2020: 85,256
2021: 1,63,370
2022: 2,25,620
2023 (till June): 87,026