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There are hundreds of thousands of '''Indians''' in '''Bangladesh''', most of whom are illegal migrants and refugees. According to data produced by the Bangladeshi Ministry of Home Affairs, as many as 500,000 Indians were staying in Bangladesh illegally in 2009.<ref name="FE">{{cite news|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20090815032813/http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/2009/07/26/74259.html|title=Bangladesh-India economic relations|work=[[Financial Express (Bangladesh)|The Financial Express]]|year=2009}}</ref> They were found working in different establishments such as NGOs, garments, textile, IT and sent money back home through [[hundi]] transfer systems. In 2012,Bangladesh was the fifth among the nations sending highest [[remittances to India]]. Indians working in Bangladesh sent more than $3.7 billion back to India in 2012.<ref name="Silicon India">{{cite web | url=http://www.siliconindia.com/news/business/15-Nations-Sending-Highest-Remittances-to-India-nid-147515-cid-3.html | title=15 Nations Sending Highest Remittances to India | publisher=Silicon India | accessdate=11 August 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://in.finance.yahoo.com/photos/india-top-receiver-of-global-remittances-1369025867-slideshow/nations-sending-highest-remittances-to-india-photo--1068156702.html | title=Rupee fall: NRIs in these nations must be happy! | publisher=[[Yahoo! Finance]] | accessdate=11 August 2013}}</ref> Most of them came on tourist visas and tended to stay back.<ref name="FE"/> The migrant community has often been a source of contention between the two countries; according to available reports, the [[lakh]]s of Indians illegally staying in the country hailed from the Indian states of [[West Bengal]], [[Meghalaya]], [[Assam]], [[Tripura]] and [[Mizoram]] and were spread across numerous urban and rural areas.
There are hundreds of thousands of '''Indians''' in '''Bangladesh''', most of whom are illegal migrants and refugees and also along with legal migrants and expatriates along with people Bangladesh-born of Indian ancestry. According to data produced by the Bangladeshi Ministry of Home Affairs, as many as 500,000 Indians were staying in Bangladesh illegally in 2009.<ref name="FE">{{cite news|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20090815032813/http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/2009/07/26/74259.html|title=Bangladesh-India economic relations|work=[[Financial Express (Bangladesh)|The Financial Express]]|year=2009}}</ref> They were found working in different establishments such as NGOs, garments, textile, IT and sent money back home through [[hundi]] transfer systems. In 2012,Bangladesh was the fifth among the nations sending highest [[remittances to India]]. Indians working in Bangladesh sent more than $3.7 billion back to India in 2012.<ref name="Silicon India">{{cite web | url=http://www.siliconindia.com/news/business/15-Nations-Sending-Highest-Remittances-to-India-nid-147515-cid-3.html | title=15 Nations Sending Highest Remittances to India | publisher=Silicon India | accessdate=11 August 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://in.finance.yahoo.com/photos/india-top-receiver-of-global-remittances-1369025867-slideshow/nations-sending-highest-remittances-to-india-photo--1068156702.html | title=Rupee fall: NRIs in these nations must be happy! | publisher=[[Yahoo! Finance]] | accessdate=11 August 2013}}</ref> Most of them came on tourist visas and tended to stay back.<ref name="FE"/> The migrant community has often been a source of contention between the two countries; according to available reports, the [[lakh]]s of Indians illegally staying in the country hailed from the Indian states of [[West Bengal]], [[Meghalaya]], [[Assam]], [[Tripura]] and [[Mizoram]] and were spread across numerous urban and rural areas.


==See also==
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Revision as of 08:16, 19 February 2016

Indians in Bangladesh
Regions with significant populations
Dhaka • Chittagong • Cox's Bazar • Rajshahi • Sylhet • Bogra
Languages
Bengali • Telugu • Hindi • Tamil • Punjabi • Bihari • Languages of India
Religion
Majority: Hinduism • Islam
Minority: Sikhism • Jainism • Zoroastrianism • Judaism

There are hundreds of thousands of Indians in Bangladesh, most of whom are illegal migrants and refugees and also along with legal migrants and expatriates along with people Bangladesh-born of Indian ancestry. According to data produced by the Bangladeshi Ministry of Home Affairs, as many as 500,000 Indians were staying in Bangladesh illegally in 2009.[1] They were found working in different establishments such as NGOs, garments, textile, IT and sent money back home through hundi transfer systems. In 2012,Bangladesh was the fifth among the nations sending highest remittances to India. Indians working in Bangladesh sent more than $3.7 billion back to India in 2012.[2][3] Most of them came on tourist visas and tended to stay back.[1] The migrant community has often been a source of contention between the two countries; according to available reports, the lakhs of Indians illegally staying in the country hailed from the Indian states of West Bengal, Meghalaya, Assam, Tripura and Mizoram and were spread across numerous urban and rural areas.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Bangladesh-India economic relations". The Financial Express. 2009.
  2. ^ "15 Nations Sending Highest Remittances to India". Silicon India. Retrieved 11 August 2013.
  3. ^ "Rupee fall: NRIs in these nations must be happy!". Yahoo! Finance. Retrieved 11 August 2013.
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