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750 Telangana labourers to be sent abroad for work
Telangana Overseas Manpower Company (TOMCOM) of the State government would soon send about 750 skilled and semi-skilled labourers to different countries with proper work visas.This was announced by Home Minister Naini Narasimha Reddy at a meet on ‘Safe Legal Migration, Overseas Employment, Role of Government Agencies, Diaspora: Telangana’, organised by TOMCOM here on Tuesday.
Hyderabad: Telangana Overseas Manpower Company (TOMCOM) of the State government would soon send about 750 skilled and semi-skilled labourers to different countries with proper work visas.This was announced by Home Minister Naini Narasimha Reddy at a meet on ‘Safe Legal Migration, Overseas Employment, Role of Government Agencies, Diaspora: Telangana’, organised by TOMCOM here on Tuesday.
The Minister informed that TOMCOM had in July sent 250 workers with proper work visas. He said that the Telangana government would coordinate with the Centre in resolving issues pertaining to migrant labourers in different countries.
The Minister informed that every year about three crore Indians go out of the country in search of livelihood and of them 10 lakh were from Telangana. He said most of the labourers were attracted by the high salary, but suffer once there due to lack of proper skills, improper documents, lack of awareness on socio-cultural diaspora of the respective countries.
He said TOMCOM was formed as per the Central norms and license was issued by the Union government in January 2016. The aim of the company is to help migrant labourers to get good salary in leading companies.
He further said the Centre had given permission to the company to take up training of nurses and lab technicians on the lines of that in Kerala. The company had a tie-up with the Basavatarakam Indo-American Cancer Hospital & Research Institute for taking up the training.
The Minister said recently, he, along with Nizamabad MP K Kavitha, had visited Dubai and attended a skill-India seminar. This had helped in learning about the working conditions of migrant labourers, said the Minister.
Naini said that a “pre-departure training” programme had been designed to make migrants aware of the international laws of migration and facilities provided by the Indian government, before they leave for work abroad. The company would list out country-specific Dos and Don’ts for the benefit of migrant labourers.
The Minister said that women migrants should be careful in taking any decision to move out of the country for employment. Chief Secretary Rajiv Sharma opined that there would be reverse migration in the State as the government was going ahead with massive construction activity by taking up irrigation projects at an estimated cost of Rs 35,000 crore.
Special Envoy to India - International Organisation for Migration (IOM) Meera Sethi said that India would be surplus of labour by 40 million by 2040. She said that the IOM had proposed a four-point solution to address the problems of migrants all over the world.
She said that lack of proper migration channel, besides poor law enforcement in India was leading to illegal migration.
