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Shri Manoranjan Bhakta : This is a very serious problem that
Indians arc facing in that part of the world. Though I
know fully well that there are many people who migrated
were
from East Pakistan and subsequently rehabilitated under
the rehabilitation scheme by the Government, they were
also not given the citizenship till now. But I am not
raising that question ncw, but my question is limited
to the point of view whether the Minister of External
Affairs is fully aware that those Indian citizens in
Hong Kong time and again represented to the Government
of India to provide land, particularly in the Andaman
and Nicobar Islands to have a free port which could solve
their problems?
I would like to know from the hon. Minister whether
he is having any information in this context and what
the Government is going to do with such a problem.
Shri Madhavsinh Solanki : That suggestion had come to Govern-
ment for development of Andaman and Nicobar Islands as
it
not
a free port but the Government have considered not to be
feasible.
Shri Manoranjan Bhakta: No wthere is a committee which has given
its opinion also.
Shri Chandra Jeet Yadav : Although I know that these Indians
who are there number about five to six thousand, but now