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Kerala to form panels to protect workers in
Middle East
Monday June 25, 2012 08:27:09 PM,
IANS
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Thiruvananthapuram: The state's Non-Resident Keralites' Affairs Department (NORKA)
will set up advisory committees in the Middle East to protect the
rights of migrant kerala workers, a minister said here Monday.
The panels will include representatives from the state government
department's field agency NORKA Roots, Malayalee organisations and
eminent non-resident Indians, said Minister for Non-Resident
Keralites Affairs K.C. Joseph.
"The committees will look into issues faced by migrant workers in
the Middle East and will report and assist Indian embassies and
missions in resolving them," Joseph added.
The minister announced this during a regional consultation on the
International Labour Organisation's Convention 189 on decent work
for domestic workers at the Centre for Development Studies (CDS)
here.
A study by CDS, an autonomous research institute, recently
estimated the number of Kerala emigrants living abroad in 2011 to
be 2.28 million, up from 2.19 million in 2008, 1.84 million in
2003 and 1.36 million in 1998.
Countries in the Middle East are preferred destinations for a
large number of migrant workers from the state.
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