{"id":309031,"date":"2019-02-06T05:20:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T05:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309031"},"modified":"2019-02-06T05:20:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T05:20:58","slug":"india-takes-proactive-measures-to-deal-with-detained-students-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-takes-proactive-measures-to-deal-with-detained-students-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"India takes proactive measures to deal with detained students in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-309032 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/india-us-300x147.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"557\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/india-us-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/india-us-324x160.jpg 324w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/india-us-533x261.jpg 533w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/india-us.jpg 644w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Indian government has continued to closely monitor and take proactive measures to deal with the detention of Indian students enrolled in a fraudulent university in the U.S.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to U.S. Government statistics, 129 Indian nationals had been administratively arrested as on January 31 in connection with their enrollment at the \u2018university\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAs on date, our Embassy and Consulates have obtained consular access to the 117 of them, by proactively visiting 36 different detention sites through the length and breadth of the country. Consular access to the remaining students, estimated at about a dozen, are continuing, including through the 24\/7 helpline set up by the Embassy and outreach to the community,\u201d Ministry of external affairs said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAssistance is being extended to the Indian students in obtaining legal advice and connecting them to community support services,\u201d the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe remain in touch with the U.S. authorities, both at the local and federal level, to ensure and satisfy ourselves about humane and dignified treatment of the Indian students and custom-sensitive dietary and living arrangement for them during the period of their detention,\u201d it added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Indian government continues to attach high priority to the well-being of the detained students and will remain constantly engaged with the U.S. authorities and other stakeholders, to address the issue.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian government has continued to closely monitor and take proactive measures to deal with the detention of Indian students enrolled in a fraudulent university in the U.S. According to U.S. Government statistics, 129 Indian nationals had been administratively arrested as on January 31 in connection with their enrollment at the \u2018university\u2019. \u201cAs on date, our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":309032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[574,424,50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309033,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309031\/revisions\/309033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/309032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}