Talk:Overseas Nepali/Archive 1
 | This is an archive of past discussions about Overseas Nepali. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
| Archive 1 |
It's lacking the portuguese nepali Lisbonite community of over 40,000, 000.
The number of Nepali in India
I noticed that the right-hand Infobox said 8,000,000 Nepali were in India.
Following the associated link, I found it was broken, but fairly easily repaired. Reviewing referenced 2008 document, titled "Soldiers, Migrants and Citizens - The Nepalese in Britain", I found this statement in the Introduction on page 3: "It is estimated that there are approximately 925,00 [sic] working in India’s private and public sectors, and a further 700,000 working ‘overseas’, meaning beyond India."
That statement was, in turn, referenced within the Runnymede article to 2005 article on the Migration Policy Institute website, which states: "At least another 700,000 [Nepalis] work in the private sector in India, and 250,000 in India's public sector." Incidentally, that totals 950,000, not 925,000.
Searching the web for something more recent, I found 2012 article from the Nepali Times titled, "They don't count, and are uncounted" that said, "Different studies estimate the number of Nepalis in India to be between 1 and 1.6 million." Supporting the challenge of trying to count migrants passing through an open border is [this 2014 document from the Asia Foundation|http://asiafoundation.org/resources/pdfs/MigrationReportbyGovernmentofNepal.pdf], which says "Because Nepal shares an open border with India, there is no requirement for official documents to cross over and thus there are no records of migration flows; any numbers would be guestimates."
I also found 2015 article in the Hindustan Times titled, "Why India must speak up strongly on Nepal" that said, "There are almost six million Nepalis working in India, according to Government of India estimates."
In short, I'm unable to find anything that supports the 8,000,000 number I found in this WP article, so I've changed it to one that I can verify (925,000), even though it may be out of date. If anyone has anything more recent and verifiable, I'd be happy to discuss it here. Cheers! ► Bgpaulus (WORDS & DEEDS) ◄ 18:55, 18 January 2016 (UTC)