HON. GURBAX SINGH MALHI RAISES NON-RESIDENT INDIANS’ CONCERNS WHEN MEETING WITH THE PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA  BRAMPTON (ONTARIO), CANADA – On Monday June 28th, the Honourable Gurbax Singh Malhi, Member of Parliament for Bramalea-Gore-Malton, is scheduled to meet with Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India. During the meeting, Mr. Malhi will be raising a number of issues that are of great concern for the Indian community as a whole and the Sikh community in particular. The concerns to be raised are specified below:
1. Black List: The community feels aggrieved of a so called black list, the shadow of which lingers upon every settler here when he thinks of visiting India. He is haunted by the treatment likely to be meted out to him at the Airports in India, of being harassed or even asked to go back.
1. I suggest that the names in the black list be made public.
2. I suggest that those who are wanted in India in any activity amounting to an offence may be subjected to the extradition proceedings, pursuant to the year 1987 extradition treaty signed between India and Canada. Further, the names of people not involved in any criminal activity be removed from the blacklist, so that innocent people can visit their home country without any fear.
2. Air India 1985 Tragedy: The Air India 182 tragedy of 1985 still haunts every Sikh in Canada as a suspect and party to it. We want this matter to be clarified in an effective way. We feel India had the same powers and the jurisdiction under the International Law to commence proceedings in India and bring perpetrators to justice, by way of an independent inquiry, investigation or trial, towards which direction India has not taken a single step. Commission after commission in Canada has only scratched the old wounds of the victims’ families and cast cloud on entire Sikh community which we want to
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Lim recognized “Crusader for Peace & Order” by Indian Community 
Stressing anew that “No one is above the law otherwise none at all”, Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim has promised to provide police protection and legal assistance for Indian nationals in the city who are reportedly being harassed and threatened with death by a group of Indian fugitives aiming to
destroy the reputation of their community’s new leaders.
Mayor Lim delivered these assurances in a speech last Wednesday June 16 before Indian nationals inside the Khalsa Diwan Inc., Sikh Temple of Manila, along U.N. Avenue, Paco.
The mayor was guest of honor at the General
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Here We Stand after Independence Meenu Dhillon
The British ruled India for 190 years (1757-1947). India finally got independence on 15 August 1947and became republic on 26 th January,1950. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. India is a republic consisting of 28 states and seven union territories with a parliamentary system of democracy. India is home to about 17% of the total world population while is has only 2.4% of the world area. Seven low-income states – Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh – are home to more than half of India’s population. In 1947 we were36 crores now are 1,166,079,217 (1.17 billion) We had controlled our Birth Rate it was in 1947 40 per thousand now is 22.22 births per 1000 population Death Rate also decreased it was 27 and now6.4 deaths per 1000 populationAverage Life Expectancy then was 37.2 years , now 69.89 years. In 19506 children born per woman but now 2.72 children born per woman. There are 8,56,111 Doctors and 8,65,135 Nurses as compared to 61800 Doctors and 18504 Nurses in 1951.India has made huge progress in terms of increasing education in 1947 only 12% now are 61% but Mal 73.4% ,Female 47.8% .With the growth of industrialized urban centres, there has been a major shift of surplus population from rural to urban areas. Due to social and economic pressures, people from backward villages started to move towards urbanized centres in search of job, where newly established industries continuously offer job opportunities to those migrating to cities. This leads to further increase in competition for jobs and employment and also higher density of population. Population living in Urban Areas in 1947was17.29% and now 29% . now 106 million, nearly 10% of
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