<P> The colony had approximately 2,500 residents in 378 family groups as of 2000 . Residents have strong ethnic identification: in one survey of young adult recent arrivals from Tibet and young adult children of Tibetan refugees in Majnu - ka - tilla, all identified as 100% Tibetan, nearly all wanted to marry Tibetans, and around 60% said that 80% or more of their friends were Tibetan . </P> <P> Administratively, it falls under the Civil Lines subdivision of the North Delhi district of NCT Delhi . </P> <P> The area lies on a stretch of the National Highway 1, which is part of the historic Grand Trunk Road and the Outer Ring Road of Delhi . It is at a walkable distance from ISBT Kashmere Gate . It is approachable through the Kashmeri Gate station of the Delhi Metro, lies on both the Red (Dilshad Garden - Rithala) and Yellow Lines (Samaypur Badli - HUDA City Centre). It is a transfer station between the Red Line on the highest upper level and the Yellow Line on the lowest level . The Vidhan Sabha metro station is 1.5 km away . </P> <P> Tibetans in exile in India have donned three different identities at once--they are "Tibetan citizens" for the Tibetan government - in - exile, "foreign guests" in the eyes of then Indian state, and that of refugees for the international community . There is a huge disparity in the determination of the status of the refugees . For these countries, it allows the UNHCR to determine their refugee statuses, which is clearly odd since India hasn't ratified the 1951 Convention . The lack of any formal structure whatsoever in this case leads to the state following the Foreigners Act as the statute to deal with the entry and exit of these people . Since there is no central government body, the entire responsibility of dealing with the refugees rests on Foreign Regional Refugee Offices (FRRO), under the Bureau of Immigration India . For people who have fled their countries following extreme persecution--the Rohingyas for instance--the situation becomes very precarious since the state can exterminate them on its whims without having to provide a valid reason . The state, thus reserving the power to decide whom to extend hospitality, furthers an ad hoc and discriminatory treatment towards various refugees . This disparity in treatment affects the refugees not only in terms for residency and employment, but also refugee status being extended to only certain groups . This lacuna of a formal structure makes "the negotiations of the refugee rights informal and arbitrary as we have no obligation under the international law, but there is also open space for political negotiation ." </P>

Nearest metro station to majnu ka tilla delhi