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Indian workers in Gulf air problems at Diaspora meet
AGENCIES
Posted on 2009-01-12
CHENNAI- Complaints of ill treatment of migrant workers by Indian immigration
officials and by officials of Indian embassies abroad, the lack of higher
education
facilities for children of Indian workers and lack of legal assistance for
jailed
workers abroad were some of the issues brought to the notice of Union Minister
for
Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi by the people from the Gulf region here
Friday.
Participating in the session to discuss the problems faced by the Indians in
the
Gulf region at the seventh Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) convention, a delegate
said: ?I saw an immigration official throwing a passport on the face of two
workers.
The workers should be treated with dignity.?
According to Soman Baby, associate editor, Gulf Daily News, Bahrain, the
remittances
from workers from the Gulf will ?drastically drop as there is going to be a
reverse
migration of workers.? Urging the minister to set up a resettlement department
for
workers who return from the Gulf, he said: ?The economic downturn has halted
several
projects. India should be able to utilise the skilled workers returning back.?
S.K. Virmani, managing director, Bhawan Engineering Group, Oman, asked the
Indian
textile companies to set up units in Oman and take advantage of the Free Trade
Agreement (FTA) that exists between USA and Oman. Replying to the plea that the
government should act fast to bring back the jailed Indian workers in the Gulf
region, Ravi said: ?We are not able to get the details of workers who are
jailed. If
details of jailed workers are provided we will act immediately.? He also
assured
that the migrant workers will be treated with dignity.
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