With an intention to understand the concerns of foreign employers in the Middle-East and South-East Asia employing Indian workers, a 2-day "Overseas Employers' Conference" will begin in the city from Monday.
The conference will provide a forum for overseas employers to interact with Central ans state governments representatives, put forward their point of views 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, as well as to interact with Indian states from where large number of workers migrate to these countries.
The conference would also seek to showcase the schemes and initiatives taken by the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs and the respective state governments for skills up gradation and pre-departure orientation programs.
Apart from this, the participants would look at ways to create awareness about the procedures adopted for promotion of regular migration, and preventing irregular migration from India.
The conference will have 4 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 and the 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 40 major foreign employers, officials from various ministries/departments of the Government of India and senior-level officers from 15 state governments from where majority labour outflow takes place.