Thanks for this. It made me wonder if things will continue to get a lot worse for Indian citizens/residents, though it seems like the trend is stabilizing. The real explosion of ITAs and, therefore, candidates applying from India happened in 2017. I anticipate the numbers levelling off for 2018 and 2019, in line with the number of ITAs*.
It's interesting to note a few things here:
a) There are more Indian citizens applying from outside of India than from within!
b) Indian resident applicants (who are most definitely all Indian citizens) made up only 17% of the total pool of ITAs issued in 2017 (the last year for which full stats are available).
c) I imagine the explosion in ITAs in 2017 corresponded with a commensurate recruitment drive for analysts/officers onshore in Canada. I can't imagine NDVO was expanded too significantly due to its remote "hardship" location. It would explain why the bulk of the processing is happening onshore in Canada and cases are then transferred to NDVO "post-processing" to send out PPRs?
*N.B. a) The 2018 year-end report will be released in June, the ITA numbers for 2018 are actual, the rest is extrapolated as a trend; b) 2019 figures are extrapolated based on ITAs in 2019 YTD.