PM Modi meets Indian migrant employees at Gulf Spic Labour Camp in Kuwait | India Information – Instances of India

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday visited the Gulf Spic Labour Camp in Kuwait, the place greater than 90% of inhabitants are Indians, and interacted with them.
Indians kind the biggest expatriate neighborhood in Kuwait, round 1 million which is current throughout varied sectors in Kuwait.
The Indian diaspora residing in nations around the globe holds a particular place of significance for PM Modi. Up to now additionally, there have been a number of cases of the PM assembly and interacting with Indian employees overseas.
In 2016, Modi visited the L&T employees’ residential complicated in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He additionally visited the All Girls IT and ITES Centre of Tata Consultancy Providers in Riyadh.
In the identical 12 months, PM Modi visited the employees’ camp in Doha, Qatar.
Earlier in 2015, PM Modi visited a labour camp in Abu Dhabi the place he highlighted India’s concern for the welfare of its migrant employees.
He interacted with Indian employees at their camps to know the issues they face and mentioned methods the Indian authorities can assist them. The Prime Minister has additionally been repeatedly working in direction of guaranteeing secure and authorized migration.
A key effort on this regard has been the e-Migrate undertaking which was launched in 2014 to facilitate emigration of Indians for employment functions and mitigate the scope of malpractices. It helps to conduct recruitment course of in a hassle-free and clear method. It additionally gives a complete on-line database of Indian emigrants to all stakeholders and makes the entire emigration cycle quick, clear and environment friendly.
The e-Migrate system has been built-in with different providers like Passport Seva Challenge for on-line validation of passport particulars and likewise with insurance coverage companies offering Pravasi Bharatiya Bima Yojna.
DG Transport system has additionally been built-in with the eMigrate system via which information about seafarers submitted to DG Transport is distributed via eMigrate to the Bureau of Immigration for processing emigration at Immigration Examine Posts and airports, thus streamlining the emigration course of.
Modi authorities has strengthened the Abroad Employment & Protector Basic of Emigrants Division, which helps streamline the method of emigration for people having ECR (Emigration Clearance Required class) passports going overseas for employment. 16 workplaces of Protector Basic of Emigrants have been opened throughout India to facilitate the identical.
Pravasi Bharatiya Sahayata Kendra, which helps disseminate details about emigration and obtain and redress complaints and grievances of migrant employees, has additionally been strengthened by the Modi authorities.
Along with the Pravasi Bhartiya Sahayata Kendra, 5 Kshetriya Pravasi Sahayata Kendra have additionally been arrange at Lucknow, Hyderabad, Chennai, Patna and Kochi which help emigrants requiring face-to-face interplay for redressal of their grievances and queries.
PM Modi has concurrently been working in direction of enhancing the situation of Indian employees overseas.
In his go to to UAE earlier this 12 months, PM Modi had introduced that UAE has given a chunk of land in Dubai for the development of a hospital for Indian employees.
After the Kuwait hearth tragedy this 12 months by which greater than 40 Indian nationals killed and over 50 have been injured, PM had chaired a evaluate assembly and introduced ex-gratia reduction of Rs 2 lakh to the households of the deceased India nationals from Prime Minister Reduction Fund.
India and Kuwait signed an MoU in 2021 which marked a pivotal step in guaranteeing the welfare and rights of Indian home employees in Kuwait. The settlement established a good and balanced relationship between employees and employers, specializing in the safety of employees’ rights and compliance with native legal guidelines. It mirrored PM’s dedication to fostering a cooperative and respectful labour atmosphere, finally enhancing the well-being of Indian employees in Kuwait.
In 2016, PM Modi had met Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani and mentioned the situation of Indian migrants. Qatar reassured that labour reforms will enhance the circumstances of greater than half 1,000,000 Indian migrants.