Uttar Pradesh Tourism dept wooing descendants of expatriates with ‘Discover your Roots’ scheme

According to a PTI report, Uttar Pradesh Tourism Department is wooing tourists not only with its heritage sites and locales but it is helping descendants of expatriates locate their native places through a scheme to discover their roots. The 'Discover your Roots' scheme, launched on the directives of the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs, has so far located the native places of at least 20 people who had migrated at the end of the 18th and beginning of 19th century, mostly as indentured labourers to Mauritius, South Africa, Fiji and Trinidad and Tobago.