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India, Saudi Arabia joint panel to address Indians' woes
Monday April 29, 2013 05:41:40 PM,
IANS
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Dubai: India and
Saudi Arabia will set up a joint committee to address the problems
faced by Indian workers in that Gulf nation in the wake of its new
labour policy.
The first meeting of the new panel will be held in Riyadh May 1 to
discuss various means to solve the problems Indian workers would
face under the new Nitaqat or Saudization policy, local media
reported Monday.
The new policy makes it mandatory for all Saudi companies to
reserve 10 percent of jobs for Saudi nationals.
The new committee will be headed by Saudi Deputy Minister for
Labour Ahamed Al-Humaidan, and Deputy Chief of the Indian Embassy
in Riyadh, Sibi George.
India's Minister for Overseas Affairs Vayalar Ravi had a meeting
with Saudi Minister for Labour Adel Fakewih in Jeddah Sunday.
“The Indian side has conveyed its concerns to the Saudi officials,
who have assured all possible support,” Ravi is quoted as saying
at a press conference after the meeting.
“A joint working group, set up for expediting the labour
agreement, will meet next month in New Delhi,” he added.
Ravi is leading a delegation on a goodwill mission comprising
India's Minister of State for External Affairs E. Ahamed and the
advisor to the Indian Prime Minister, T.K.A. Nair, to Saudi
Arabia.
Later, the delegation also met Saudi Minister for Foreign Affairs
Prince Saud Al-Faisal and updated him about the outcome of the
meeting.
The new Nitaqat policy has created panic among undocumented Indian
workers who are flooding the Indian embassy in Riyadh and the
consulate in Jeddah with requests for emergency certificates so
that they can return home.
They are around 1.8 million expatriate Indians in Saudi Arabia,
many of them working as blue collar workers.
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