Firm barred from hiring Indians

Indian Missions also recommend the inclusion of such foreign employers in the Prior Approval Category (Black list) based on the merits of the case.

On the basis of such a recommendation, the Ministry places the concerned foreign company in the “Prior Approval Category.”

“A foreign company, when included in the ‘Prior Approval Category list’ is no longer allowed to recruit workers from India,” according to Ministry of External Affairs of India.

Workers said they are very happy after being united with their family members. “It’s such a feeling, which can’t be expressed through words,” said Vanapalli Ramana after reaching Visakhapatnam.

“I must say, I was lucky, well coming to the point. My name was put up for expatriation, until the moment you wouldn’t know where will your destination be. So I travelled to Muscat on the Ministry of Manpower-arranged mini bus. On reaching to airport, we are given papers—visa, passport and ticket to fly back home,” he add- ed. Not everyone is as fortunate as Ramana.

Project Engineer Ninad More still doesn’t know when he is flying back home. “Every day, I am waiting to see my name figure in the list of people who will be flying out,” he said.

More said that every day the Ministry of Manpower with the help of the Indian Embassy is sending out a few people home. “So when the list comes every morning, everyone rushes to check whether his name is there,” he said.