Two-Day “Overseas Employers’ Conference” to Begin at Hyderabad Tomorrow

A two-day “Overseas Employers’ Conference” will be held at Hyderabad tomorrow to understand the concerns of the Foreign Employers in the Middle East and South-East Asia employing Indian workers. The conference will provide a forum for the overseas employers to interact with the Government of India and the State Government representatives and put forward their point of view and raise issues related to recruitment of Indian workers for overseas employment.

The broad objectives of the conference are:

• To discuss with leading foreign employers from GCC countries and South East Asian countries about the availability of trained manpower in various sectors, such as construction, hospitality and health care, etc. as well as to interact with States from where large number of workers migrate to these countries.

• To showcase the schemes and initiatives taken by the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs and respective State Governments for skill upgradation and pre-departure orientation programmes.

• Create awareness about the procedures adopted for promotion of regular migration and preventing irregular migration from India.

The conference spread over two days will have four sessions broadly on:

• Policy issues governing emigration for overseas employment.

• Skill development for better employment opportunities overseas.

• Improving the relations between the overseas employer and the worker.

• Promotion of overseas employment for migrant workers.

The conference is being organized by the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA) in partnership with the Government of Andhra Pradesh, Indian Council of Overseas Employment (ICOE) and the Overseas Manpower Corporation Limited (OMCAP), Andhra Pradesh. The conference is likely to be attended by around forty major foreign employers, officials from various Ministries/Departments of Government of India and senior level officers from the 15 State Governments from where majority labour outflow takes place from India to foreign countries for overseas employment in semi and low-skilled category and representatives of the concerned foreign governments.

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