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Australian coroners fake info on Indian deaths
By siliconindia news bureau
Thursday,02 July 2009, 01:49 hrs
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Bangalore: Over 54 students from overseas died of various reasons in Australia last year of which nearly half were Indians. The public officials tried to hide details of the deaths, to protect the lucrative $15.5 billion education market in the country, 'The Age' in Melbourne reported.
Meanwhile, External Affairs Minister, S M Krishna is planning to land in Australia for addressing the situation.
The report published, claimed the toll to be much higher than what the federal government admitted. State and Territory Officials, under the National Coroners Information System (NCIS), have refused an application by the daily for data on deaths of overseas students in the year ended November 2008, the paper said.
A spokeswoman for Victorian Coroner, Jennifer Coate said "The information would not be made public because it was not exhaustive. The nationality and occupation of someone who has died is not required to be automatically recorded." The refusal came after the NCIS's previous indications of making the information available, the report said.
On questioning in the Parliament, the government said in February that 51 overseas students died in that year, with 34 dying of "unknown" causes.
Fourteen cases were cited as accidents and three as death from illness. But, an investigation by The Age has established that the death toll is around 54 which is higher than 51 with mostly Indians, Korean and Chinese. Nearly half were Indians, holding one-fifth of the total student visas at that time, the report said.
The government figures did not display suicide cases, being real figure at least three, the daily claimed.
The Age carried a story of a Punjab's Mangat Garg, whose son Razat died after being hit by a train on the western outskirts of Melbourne on the Valentine's Day. The Australian police suggested that the hospitality management student had committed suicide; but not satisfied with the investigation alleging murder. The valuables and cash he was carrying at the time of the incident were not found on his body, his father informed.
Chris Nyland, an Expert on International Education, Monash University, said "There is a need for a federal advisory body on student safety. Mandatory statistical reporting of international students' deaths must also be done.
If an overseas student dies in Australia, the education provider is not required to give a the cause of death when it reports the matter to the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, in present situations.
A spokeswoman for Education Minister Julia Gillard said the law would be reviewed this year and next.
Opposition Immigration spokeswoman Sharman Stone informed that she sought the data in February because foreign-student organizations suspected under-reporting of deaths. "To have 34 cited as unknown is an extraordinary statistic," she said.
Australian coroners fake info on Indian deaths
By siliconindia news bureau
Thursday,02 July 2009, 01:49 hrs
Comment(5)
Forward
Bangalore: Over 54 students from overseas died of various reasons in Australia last year of which nearly half were Indians. The public officials tried to hide details of the deaths, to protect the lucrative $15.5 billion education market in the country, 'The Age' in Melbourne reported.
Meanwhile, External Affairs Minister, S M Krishna is planning to land in Australia for addressing the situation.
The report published, claimed the toll to be much higher than what the federal government admitted. State and Territory Officials, under the National Coroners Information System (NCIS), have refused an application by the daily for data on deaths of overseas students in the year ended November 2008, the paper said.
A spokeswoman for Victorian Coroner, Jennifer Coate said "The information would not be made public because it was not exhaustive. The nationality and occupation of someone who has died is not required to be automatically recorded." The refusal came after the NCIS's previous indications of making the information available, the report said.
On questioning in the Parliament, the government said in February that 51 overseas students died in that year, with 34 dying of "unknown" causes.
Fourteen cases were cited as accidents and three as death from illness. But, an investigation by The Age has established that the death toll is around 54 which is higher than 51 with mostly Indians, Korean and Chinese. Nearly half were Indians, holding one-fifth of the total student visas at that time, the report said.
The government figures did not display suicide cases, being real figure at least three, the daily claimed.
The Age carried a story of a Punjab's Mangat Garg, whose son Razat died after being hit by a train on the western outskirts of Melbourne on the Valentine's Day. The Australian police suggested that the hospitality management student had committed suicide; but not satisfied with the investigation alleging murder. The valuables and cash he was carrying at the time of the incident were not found on his body, his father informed.
Chris Nyland, an Expert on International Education, Monash University, said "There is a need for a federal advisory body on student safety. Mandatory statistical reporting of international students' deaths must also be done.
If an overseas student dies in Australia, the education provider is not required to give a the cause of death when it reports the matter to the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, in present situations.
A spokeswoman for Education Minister Julia Gillard said the law would be reviewed this year and next.
Opposition Immigration spokeswoman Sharman Stone informed that she sought the data in February because foreign-student organizations suspected under-reporting of deaths. "To have 34 cited as unknown is an extraordinary statistic," she said.
