State IT and NRI Affairs Minister K.T. Rama Rao will attend a meeting convened by Union Minister for External Affairs at New Delhi on May 8 to discuss issued faced by the Indian immigrants working in Gulf countries and Malaysia.
Mr.Rama Rao held a meeting with officials of Industry and Commerce, GAD, Regional Passport Officer and Head, MEA Branch, Secretariat, Protocol on Friday as part of the process for formulating an NRI policy in Telangana State
The meeting in Delhi would focus on complaints from emigrant workers broadly related to recruitment agents, violation of contractual terms, working conditions, wage, employer, women related problems and compensation cases, according to an official release.
Telangana government’s NRI policy would also focus on issues related to protection and welfare of NRIs and also involve them in the development programmes of their native country.
The External Affairs Ministry would also take up its first MEA-State Outreach programme in collaboration with Telangana government to be held here on May 13 with all the stakeholders.
The outreach programme would comprise setting up an integrated office at Hyderabad for facilitating easy access to the MEA offices like Passport Office, Head of MEA Branch, POE. Land will be identified by the State governmetn in consultation with MEA.
The State will act as a facilitator to the NRIs intending to work for a noble cause in their respective districts. The Telangana government also offered to host Pravasi Bharatiya Divas-2019 in Hyderabad.
The other programmes include ‘Know India Programme’ in Telananga to be hosted by Information and Communication, Tourism and Culture and IT developments to showcase best of India for benefit NRIs as well as foreigners and opening of a Pravasi Kaushal Vikas Yojana Skilling centre in Hyderabad. A media campaign on safe and legal migration for overseas employment will be launched by I and PR department and manuals in Telugu and Urdu will be released to facilitate pre-departure orientation training.
A pilot project will be taken up at TOMCOM Mallepally with the services of employment exchanges in collaboration with Mee Seva outlets to speed up the process of issuing of passports and then extended to all the district employment offices.
e-Sanad proejct will be launched for digitising the process of authentication of documents and online application will be linked with passport, Aadhar, mobile number for slot booking for submission of original certificates for GAD stamping in Tatkal or general mode.
