6 months ago
1
Hyderabad
The Telangana NRI Advisory Committee, connected Thursday, deliberated connected the projected Overseas Mobility Bill 2025, and sought inputs from assorted stakeholders specified arsenic academics, diaspora associations, and migrant workers’ payment and advocacy groups, to travel up with recommendations for the information of Indians moving abroad.
Committee members B.M. Vinod Kumar, M. Bheem Reddy and others, interacted with respective groups and individuals, connected definitions successful the projected Bill, workers, and the request to grow the scope of the papers truthful arsenic to see students and workers.
Discussion besides revolved astir practice of States, particularly those with comparatively larger outflow of migrants, successful the Statutory Council. Representation of members of diaspora, and workers’ bodies was besides discussed.
Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar, who was astatine the consultation meeting, said that the State Government has been supporting migrants successful West Asian countries. He noted that the quality of migration has moved from semi-skilled, oregon skilled labour to those with proficiency successful technology, and different sectors.
He said that the State has introduced peculiar schemes for workers successful the Gulf, acquisition for their children, Pravasi Prajavani grievance mechanism, and fiscal assistance of ₹5 lakh to families of workers who died abroad. The committee volition besides stitchery feedback from Gulf-affected districts to signifier its recommendations.
