Indian High Commission urges international students to take advantage of MADAD – an initiative to support students
Indian High Commission is reminding international students from India to take advantage of Government of India’s initiative called MADAD, which was launched only last year in July 2016 with the single objective of providing support to the Indian students while being away from their family and country.
Taking a note of the recent increase in the number of Indian students who are regularly finding themselves in trouble of one kind or the other here in New Zealand, the High Commission is urging more and more students to register themselves with this initiative so as to be able to be in a position to deliver time-sensitive services as and when required.
The decision to study overseas, in a distant location, away from one’s family and the comfort of one’s culture can often entail lots of challenges for the young international students in an alien land.
These challenges are further magnified when students find themselves in the clutches of rogue employers or duped by immigration agents back home who falsifying their documents submitted to Immigration New Zealand, which can often result in abrupt deportation.
Most of these students, leave India—a large number of them from rural villages, leave their families and home country— with stars in their eyes, in search of their dreams. But alas, the reality is nowhere near what they expect.
One can only imagine the plight of students who already feel under immense pressures from their families, who perhaps mortgage their homes and lands to meet the expenses of their children studying abroad, and are then served with a deportation notice.
Often, all such situations leave students clueless regarding whom to contact or ask for help.
The Government of India had last year sought to ameliorate such situations for Indian students when away overseas by adding a specific student module to its Consular Grievances Monitoring System (MADAD).
The home page link of the MADAD portal (https://portal1.madad.gov.in/AppConsular/welcomeLink) now provides basic guidance on how students can first register themselves on this module and then proceed to provide basic information. This information will help the concerned Indian Embassy/High Commission to engage effectively with the students and render them all possible assistance. The data entered in this module can be accessed and used exclusively only by Indian Missions and Ministry of External Affairs.
The High Commission of India in New Zealand is encouraging all Indian students in New Zealand to register them and provide basic information about them through this platform. This will then allow the High Commission to support these students when required.
Speaking about this new initiative then, the High Commissioner, Mr Sanjiv Kohli had said, “The advisory is to convey new initiatives that we are taking to enable us to maintain an updated database and to facilitate direct interface with our students here so that in times of need, both sides can reach the other quickly. They can share their experiences and concerns with us. We want to ensure that we do everything possible to promote their well-being. This would also help us to take up their concerns with respective institutions and government agencies. This is going to be a continuing process and can develop further only through an interactive manner.”
It is hoped that this new initiative is supported by our student community and they work with the High Commission of India to ensure that the students are better supported and have better outcomes to the various issues that they are faced with.
Indian High Commission is reminding international students from India to take advantage of Government of India’s initiative called MADAD, which was launched only last year in July 2016 with the single objective of providing support to the Indian students while being away from their family and...
Indian High Commission is reminding international students from India to take advantage of Government of India’s initiative called MADAD, which was launched only last year in July 2016 with the single objective of providing support to the Indian students while being away from their family and country.
Taking a note of the recent increase in the number of Indian students who are regularly finding themselves in trouble of one kind or the other here in New Zealand, the High Commission is urging more and more students to register themselves with this initiative so as to be able to be in a position to deliver time-sensitive services as and when required.
The decision to study overseas, in a distant location, away from one’s family and the comfort of one’s culture can often entail lots of challenges for the young international students in an alien land.
These challenges are further magnified when students find themselves in the clutches of rogue employers or duped by immigration agents back home who falsifying their documents submitted to Immigration New Zealand, which can often result in abrupt deportation.
Most of these students, leave India—a large number of them from rural villages, leave their families and home country— with stars in their eyes, in search of their dreams. But alas, the reality is nowhere near what they expect.
One can only imagine the plight of students who already feel under immense pressures from their families, who perhaps mortgage their homes and lands to meet the expenses of their children studying abroad, and are then served with a deportation notice.
Often, all such situations leave students clueless regarding whom to contact or ask for help.
The Government of India had last year sought to ameliorate such situations for Indian students when away overseas by adding a specific student module to its Consular Grievances Monitoring System (MADAD).
The home page link of the MADAD portal (https://portal1.madad.gov.in/AppConsular/welcomeLink) now provides basic guidance on how students can first register themselves on this module and then proceed to provide basic information. This information will help the concerned Indian Embassy/High Commission to engage effectively with the students and render them all possible assistance. The data entered in this module can be accessed and used exclusively only by Indian Missions and Ministry of External Affairs.
The High Commission of India in New Zealand is encouraging all Indian students in New Zealand to register them and provide basic information about them through this platform. This will then allow the High Commission to support these students when required.
Speaking about this new initiative then, the High Commissioner, Mr Sanjiv Kohli had said, “The advisory is to convey new initiatives that we are taking to enable us to maintain an updated database and to facilitate direct interface with our students here so that in times of need, both sides can reach the other quickly. They can share their experiences and concerns with us. We want to ensure that we do everything possible to promote their well-being. This would also help us to take up their concerns with respective institutions and government agencies. This is going to be a continuing process and can develop further only through an interactive manner.”
It is hoped that this new initiative is supported by our student community and they work with the High Commission of India to ensure that the students are better supported and have better outcomes to the various issues that they are faced with.
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