{"id":6017,"date":"2006-04-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/04\/09\/2006-04-09-project-set-up-to-trace-indian-diaspora\/"},"modified":"2006-04-09T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-09T12:00:00","slug":"2006-04-09-project-set-up-to-trace-indian-diaspora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/04\/09\/2006-04-09-project-set-up-to-trace-indian-diaspora\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Set Up to Trace Indian Diaspora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/inwww.rediff.com\/newshound\/index.html#\">inwww.rediff.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">NEW DELHI, INDIA, April 8, 2006: The ministry of overseas Indian affairs&#8217; (MOIA) effort to help persons of Indian origin (PIOs) abroad trace their antecedents in the land of their forefathers has started bearing fruit with the roots of eight people being traced in the district of Ballia in Uttar Pradesh. A meeting held here reviewed the progress in a pilot project started by the ministry, called &#8220;Tracing the Roots,&#8221; which is under way in the districts of Ballia in Uttar Pradesh and Bhojpur in Bihar. The Uttar Pradesh government has already created an archival database of 10,000 people who had migrated to different parts of the world in the 19th and early 20th centuries. There are 56 names from Ballia, where the pilot project is under way, on the list of 10,000 and of them the roots of eight have been traced. Most of the ancestors of these PIOs had gone as indentured labour to countries like Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Jamaica, Mauritius and Fiji. A PIO, who is interested in tracing his or her roots, will have to produce the emigration pass that had been given to the ancestor by the then British government in India. MOIA will then help the PIO trace his or her roots while charging a nominal fee for the exercise. There are around a million PIOs in the Caribbean islands &#8211; over 500,000 in Trinidad and Tobago, around 400,000 in Guyana, over 60,000 in Jamaica and over 2,000 in Barbados. Mauritius is home to 700,000 PIOs while over 300,000 PIOs live in Fiji. <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>inwww.rediff.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, April 8, 2006: The ministry of overseas Indian affairs&#8217; (MOIA) effort to help persons of Indian,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}