Bigger India
2,00,000 Indians Abroad Forced to Return Home in Four Years
The news is especially bad for a country like India that depends on remittances by foreign workers to meet a substantial part of its trade deficit and avoid going bankrupt.
Even as the United Arab Emirates prepares to ship thousands of undocumented Indian workers home, numbers from the external affairs ministry reveal that a total of about 1.7 lakh Indians have been forced to leave the Gulf Cooperation Council countries alone since 2014.