The Centre’s high-level inter-ministerial panel has now directed all States and Union Territories (UTs) to conduct ground-level verification and get details of these people
While 29,466 of the 73,138 Indians who travelled to Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar and Vietnam on visitor visas from January 2022 to May 2024 are yet to return, more than half (17,115) of these are in the 20-39 years age group; 21,182 are males; over one-third are from three states — Punjab (3,667), Maharashtra (3,233) and Tamil Nadu (3,124); and Thailand accounts for over 69 per cent of the total at 20,450.

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