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MEA Parliament replies (24-25 Jul 2025): citizenship, prisoners, peacekeeping, SAARC

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Battle IAS current affairs title card: MEA Parliament replies (24-25 Jul 2025): citizenship, prisoners, peacekeeping, SAARC (GS2 · Parliament replies, 25 July 2025)

What happened

  • Indians giving up citizenship: 2,25,620 in 2022, 2,16,219 in 2023 and 2,06,378 in 2024 [MEA, Rajya Sabha reply].
  • There are 10,574 Indian prisoners, including undertrials, in foreign jails; Sri Lanka apprehended 526 Tamil Nadu fishermen in 2024 against 220 in 2023 [MEA, Lok Sabha reply].
  • India’s Centre for UN Peacekeeping (2000) has trained about 10,000 Indian and 2,000 foreign peacekeepers from 96 countries; India has reached 22% women among staff officers and observers against the UN target of 25% by 2028 [MEA, Rajya Sabha reply].
  • The 19th SAARC Summit, due in Pakistan in November 2016, stays postponed with no consensus to hold it [MEA, Lok Sabha reply].

Background

  • The Monsoon Session began on 21 July 2025 [PIB].

Why it matters

  • The fishermen numbers more than doubled in a year, which is why the issue keeps returning in Parliament.

How to use this in Mains

GS-II Parliament and State legislatures

  1. As per MEA (2025-07-25): indians giving up citizenship: 2,25,620 in 2022, 2,16,219 in 2023 and 2,06,378 in 2024.
  2. The fishermen numbers more than doubled in a year, which is why the issue keeps returning in Parliament.
Quotable data point

There are 10,574 Indian prisoners, including undertrials, in foreign jails; Sri Lanka apprehended 526 Tamil Nadu fishermen in 2024 against 220 in 2023.

MEA: RS Q561 Renouncement of Indian citizenship, 24 Jul 2025

Exam angle

UPSC

Prelims: CUNPK, UN gender parity targets, 19th SAARC Summit. · Mains: Palk Bay fisheries dispute; why SAARC is stalled.

Practice MCQs

Original practice questions (not PYQs).

Practice · UPSC

Tamil Nadu fishermen apprehended by Sri Lanka in 2024

Answer (c) & explanation

MEA (Parliament reply).

Practice · UPSC

The UN gender parity target for staff officers and observers by 2028 is

Answer (c) & explanation

MEA (Parliament reply).

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Official source: MEA: RS Q561 Renouncement of Indian citizenship, 24 Jul 2025

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