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Gulf jobs: SP asked to keep watch on travel agents

By Our Staff Reporter

KARIMNAGAR, JUNE 5. The incharge Collector, M Dana Kishore, has instructed the Superintendent of Police, R.S Praveen Kumar, to investigate activities of travel agencies and take action against agents duping rural masses by promising them employment and sending them on visiting visas to Gulf countries.

Responding to a news item `Their Gulf dream turns nightmare' published in these columns on June 3, the incharge Collector said that the Sircilla RDO visited the village and inquired about the problems being faced by villagers of Ramannapet in Chandurthi mandal. The RDO had stated that about 120 youths from the village had migrated to the Gulf countries in search of employment and were languishing in jails.

Mr Dana Kishore said that he had also written to the State Government to take necessary action for release of several rural youths from the district who were arrested following expiry of their visiting visa. He said they were preparing an action plan to monitor the people going abroad and check the dubious tactics of travel agents.

Three-pronged strategy

Nizamabad: The alarming rise in the number of persons being cheated by job agents has prompted the police to adopt a three-pronged strategy to tackle the menace.

Cashing in on the craze for jobs in Gulf, agents are making a big killing taking advantage of their ignorance about the procedure to secure passport and visa. For all this, the agents charge anything between Rs. 50,000 to Rs. 1.50 lakhs.

A majority of the persons sent to the Gulf countries suffer in the alien land without proper employment and harsh working conditions. While some manage to stick to the promised job but with lesser salary others are caught and languish in the jails.

The Armoor sub-division has attained notoriety with hundreds of jobless youths being taken for a ride by so-called job consultants-cum-travel agents. The Superintendent of Police, N.Madhusudan Reddy, has come out with a three-pronged strategy to tackle the problem. He explained the steps being initiated to bail out victims.

As a first step, all the travel agents and job consultants for Gulf countries operating in the district would be asked to register themselves with the police. They would be asked to submit a copy of the passport and visa of the person going abroad for ready reference.

The department is planning to launch massive awareness campaign in rural areas. The department intends to distribute pamphlets and put up posters in villages advising the youth to be cautious about agents.

The third measure is to open counselling centres in all the police stations where the youth would be asked to take advice. The agents would also be summoned to the station and told not to fleece the youth.

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