Tibetan Refugees in India

  • Tibetans Refugees Escaping to India Count Almost Diminishing

    Tibetans Refugees Escaping to India Count Almost Diminishing

    The number of Tibetans refugees escaping to India from the Chinese regime in Tibet is almost diminishing. The fresh reports suggest that there is a 97% drop in the number of Tibetans arriving in India to seek refugee from Chinese regime in Tibet in the past year, 2017.

  • Local Apprentices Now Overtaking Tibetan Winter Businesses

    Local Apprentices Now Overtaking Tibetan Winter Businesses

    The winter business solutions for the Tibetan refugees in India has been a blessed source of livelihood over the last many decades. However, with the Tibetans being highly mobile, the local Indian apprentices of the Tibetans are now overtaking the winter business in some parts of India.

  • Sikkim State To Adopt the Tibetan Rehabilitation Policy 2014

    Sikkim State To Adopt the Tibetan Rehabilitation Policy 2014

    In a pleasant news from the Northern state of India, Sikkim, the Cabinet of the state government in a meeting has unanimously decided to adopt the Tibetan Rehabilitation Policy 2014. The policy formulated by the Central government in 2014 aims to provide better livelihood opportunities for the Tibetan refugees in the country.

  • Tibetans Availing Indian Passports Should Move Out of Refugee Settlements

    Tibetans Availing Indian Passports Should Move Out of Refugee Settlements

    The Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in a circular to all the passport issuing authorities in India and abroad mentioned that Tibetan refugees availing the Indian Passports should declare to not stay in any Tibetan refugee settlements or enjoying any Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) benefits, privileges or subsidies.

  • India Outlines Tibetan RCs/ICs Surrender Procedure to Apply for Passport

    India Outlines Tibetan RCs/ICs Surrender Procedure to Apply for Passport

    The Ministry of External Affairs of the Government of India has issued a directive to all the passport issuing authorities on Monday to accept the surrender of Registration Certificates (RCs) and Identity Certificates (ICs) of Tibetan Refugees eligible to apply for Indian passports. The memorandum from the ministry has come in response to a Delhi…

  • Indian Ministry Suggests a Sharp 43% Decline in No. of Tibetan Refugees

    Indian Ministry Suggests a Sharp 43% Decline in No. of Tibetan Refugees

    According to the publication in the leading Indian news paper, The Indian Express, the number of Tibetan refugees in India has declined by more than 43% in the past seven years. This report is huge shocker as the number is very much below the approximated count as suggested by the official of Central Tibetan Administration,…

  • Tibetan Girl’s Indian Independence Day Message Will Melt Your Heart

    Tibetan Girl’s Indian Independence Day Message Will Melt Your Heart

    Whenever I think of the 15th August, my mind recollects something and I shan’t forget to congratulate and thank India for making me realize who I am. It was exactly 11 years ago, I had felt an electric power kind of wave passing through my nerves and bones. And I found myself in the pool…

  • Prohibitory Order Upon Protests Against Tibetan Refugees

    Prohibitory Order Upon Protests Against Tibetan Refugees

    A prohibitory order upon protests against Tibetan refugees by the Students’ United Movement of All Arunachal (SUMAA) has been issued by the District Magistrate of West Kemang District of Arunachal Pradesh from Bomdila on Monday. The students group has been carrying out a protest against Tibetan refugees since the beginning of this month leading to…

  • Arunachal Group Demands Deportation of Tibetans to Refugee Camps

    Arunachal Group Demands Deportation of Tibetans to Refugee Camps

    Since the implementation of Tibetan Rehabilitation Policy 2014 coined by the Central Government of India for the welfare of around hundred thousand Tibetan refugees living in the country, some non governmental organizations such as students unions have been protesting the move in Arunachal Pradesh demanding deportation of Tibetans to refugee camps in the state.

  • Tibetan Youth Says Thank You India with this Poem

    Tibetan Youth Says Thank You India with this Poem

    A Tibetan youth says Thank You India with a beautiful poem ahead of the year marking 60th year of the Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama stepping foot on the Indian soil in exile. The following is the original poem from the young Tibetan refugee