India has adopted holistic approach to migration governance: MoS Kirti Vardhan Singh at UN

UNITED NATIONS: (May 8) India has adopted a holistic approach to migration governance that places the welfare, protection and empowerment of emigrants at its core, Minister of State for External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh has said.

Addressing a special event organised by the Permanent Mission of India to the UN on Thursday on the margins of the second International Migration Review Forum (IMRF), Singh highlighted Indias pioneering digital initiative aimed at facilitating mobility and protection of its migrants.

The Indian migration story is both vast and dynamic. We have a diaspora of over 34 million people spread all across the globe, encompassing more than 200 countries, and our global community has served to connect economies, cultures and ideas through many centuries, he said.