Australia's Ballarat beckons Indian migrants
BALLARAT - Ballarat, Australia's picturesque and affluent historic gold mining city, is wooing skilled Indians - especially doctors, engineers, teachers, IT professionals and students - to settle there as permanent residents. Ballarat City Council's business executive director David Keenan and former vice-chancellor of the University of Ballarat and Councillor David James are currently in India with a 50-member strong information technology (IT) delegation led by Victorian Minister for IT Marsha Thomson touring Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore. The Ballarat Council officers are pitching for skilled migrants, especially doctors, engineers, teachers, IT professionals and students to permanently migrate to Ballarat under the Skilled Independent Regional Visa Program (SIRVP). "We have already started receiving applications for permanent residence in Ballarat from Indian migrants largely between the age-group of 34 and 42 in sales, trading, civil engineering, application programmers and others," says Keenan. Under the Victorian State Government's SIRVP, applicants are required to spend two years located in a city or town outside the capital Melbourne. This scheme is aimed at attracting skilled migrants to regional areas. An Australian Indian, Dr Sundram Sivamalai is a lecturer in the School of Nursing at the University of Ballarat. Having studied and lived in the United Kingdom and big cities of Australia, Sivamalai moved to Ballarat 18 years ago, when he was offered a position at the university and has "no regrets whatsoever". (Asia Pulse/PTI) Nov 2, 2004 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> *************************************************************************** Berdikusi dg Santun & Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality & Shared Destiny. www.ppi-india.uni.cc *************************************************************************** __________________________________________________________________________ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
