India to evacuate 10,000 workers |
About 10,000 Indians stranded in Saudi Arabia will be evacuated and no one will go hungry as ration has been distributed to them, external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj said in Parliament . Her deputy VK Singh is leaving for Saudi Arabia to oversee the evacuation process. The government, she said, was in touch with the foreign and labour offices in Saudi Arabia to ensure their early evacuation. Swaraj noted that the law there does not permit an emergency exit visa without no objection certificate from the employers who, she said, have shut their factories and left the country, leaving these employees stranded. The government has requested the Saudi government to give them exit visas as employers had left the country and also urged it to first clear the dues of workers+ who have not been paid for months, whenever they settle the accounts with the companies concerned.
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