Thiruvananthapuram: The exodus of migrant workers from Saudi Arabia continues, with nearly 100 people returning to Kerala on a daily basis since November 3, when the deadline for the end of the grace period for implementation of Nitaqat law in the Gulf country ended.
The new law, as part of the 'Saudi-ization policy', ensures crackdown against all undocumented workers.
The new law has affected many Indians. Rajesh, who has a family of five depending upon him, had no option but to return. Rajesh, who worked at a welding workshop in Riyadh, discovered that under the new law, his work permit was specified for a job of a different nature.
States like Kerala, which received nearly Rs 65,000 crore in 2012-13 in remittances from Saudi are now providing support to the migrant workers with rehabilitation packages like zero-per cent interest schemes and pursuing oversees Malayali employees to offer jobs to the migrants who have returned.
As on November 14, 83 Malayalis had registered their names with NORKA as returnees. Sources with the government, however, maintain that the return of migrant workers will not affect remittances drastically as majority of the returnees are labourers. Most of the Indian professionals are continuing there.
The new law, as part of the 'Saudi-ization policy', ensures crackdown against all undocumented workers.
The new law has affected many Indians. Rajesh, who has a family of five depending upon him, had no option but to return. Rajesh, who worked at a welding workshop in Riyadh, discovered that under the new law, his work permit was specified for a job of a different nature.
States like Kerala, which received nearly Rs 65,000 crore in 2012-13 in remittances from Saudi are now providing support to the migrant workers with rehabilitation packages like zero-per cent interest schemes and pursuing oversees Malayali employees to offer jobs to the migrants who have returned.
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As on November 14, 83 Malayalis had registered their names with NORKA as returnees. Sources with the government, however, maintain that the return of migrant workers will not affect remittances drastically as majority of the returnees are labourers. Most of the Indian professionals are continuing there.
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