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About 1.5 lakh Indians return from UAE

New Delhi: An estimated 1.5 lakh Indian workers have come back home from the United Arab Emirates due to economic crisis and recession, the Lok Sabha was told on Wednesday. Replying to a question, Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi informed the House that an estimated 50,000 to 1,50,000 workers ....Read more

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economic crisis in Saudi ArabiaBy: BIju | Wednesday , 15 Jul '09 13:08:15 PM Reply | Forward Actually the ecnomic crisis continuing still.Its will be end soon after 6-12 months(these are the hopeof every gulf people).i am a computer technicain in saudi arabia..here my place is arar..its aborder of iraq.The ecnomic crisis never affect here.the cause is that here we can't see any large industral companies..only small shops are available.Other places of saudi arabia,like riyad,damam.etc are large scale industral area.,ecnomic crisis affected there.now the company disband some people.also give long leave to workers...same like situation in dubai..All the gulf countries were affected the crisis.This may cause more problem in gulf peolple.If this situation is continuing that may leads to dangerous contion in india.In india about 20-40% of peoples depends gulf money.The people who lost their job in gulf is very dificulty to get another job in India.So we hope that this ecnomiccrisis will end soon.

The Gulf returneesBy: Kishore Karnad | Thursday , 9 Jul '09 9:10:46 AM Reply | Forward Sad though it is, expatriates returning home is not surprising at least in the context of construction workers. Workers are recruited on contract with specific understanding that they will be sent back at the end of contract or end of project. Unlike the western countries, expats can never settle down in UAE. The most government of India can do is to introduce an Insurance scheme whereby workers can contribute money while they are employed and can derive survival benefits on losing jobs. It may not be wise to propose any special allowance just because they lose their contractual jobs. And what kind of statistics is it when the Minister says "Between 50,000 and 150,000 have returned? We should have some reasonable range.

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