40,000 Rohingyas settled in India:Kiren Rijiju

New Delhi Dec 19: Union Minister had informed the parliament about the status of Rohingya migrants in the country.The Union minister of state for home affairs Kiren Rijiju informed the Lok Sabha
that "Around 40,000 Rohingya migrants were illegally living in India and none of them had been deported so far."

In a reply to question in Loksabha the minister in his written reply has added that " the entry of illegal migrants was clandestine and surreptitious and thus, an accurate figure of how many of them were currently living in the country was not available."

He added that there was no legislation to deal with refugees and asylum-seekers in India.

earlier many Rohingyas have migrated from the Myanmar and have settled in Bangladesh and some people have taken refugees in the country.