U.S. Group Denies Media Report On Missing Pandits

The newspaper said that the children enrolled in the programme at the tender age of five were rarely provided education beyond fifth standard.

The Vedic pandits were brought to the U.S. from India and were kept in makeshift trailer homes to be guarded by round-the-clock guards, the report said.

It said a contract is drafted in English but the copy is neither given to the pandits nor is it translated or explained to the fifth-grader migrants who do not even understand English.

"No pandit has ever come on the programme under 18 years of age. Their average age is approximately 25, with the ages of those leaving ranging from 20-42," the GCWP said.

"It has been agreed with the pandits that of the $200 per month base cash compensation, $150 will be transmitted to their families in India. It has been paid."

It said the pandits are provided with modern, fully heated and air-conditioned comfortable modular homes, with an indoor and outdoor athletic facility and a large organic vegetarian kitchen and cafeteria, along with meditation halls, classrooms and Vedic performance halls.

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