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KOZHIKODE: Smart cards, to be issued to all those going abroad for employment from August 1, "is one of the measures being initiated by the Union Government to curb exploitation of Indians taking up overseas employment," the Union Minister of State for Overseas Indians' Affairs, Jagdish Tytler, said. "Besides the electronic smart card [having two-year validity and containing an insurance cover and all relevant information about the card-holder], the Government has also started taking stringent action against recruiting agencies found guilty of cheating Indians taken to the Gulf with promises of employment," Mr. Tytler said. He was speaking at a seminar on ``NRIs and Development'' organised by the Kerala Government's Information and Public Relations Department at Hotel Malabar Palace here on Saturday. Mr. Tytler said his recent visits to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for a first-hand feel of the condition of Indians there had convinced him that unscrupulous recruiting agencies were responsible for the miseries that some Indians, especially the labour class, faced there. ``The UAE Government cannot be blamed on any count for such matters. They consider Indians to be honest,'' Mr. Tytler said. The Minister had visited labour camps in Dubai and held talks with representatives of the Government there and officials of Indian Embassies in the Gulf countries after he received repeated representations from the Kerala Chief Minister, Oommen Chandy, seeking urgent steps to curb exploitation of Indians — a large number of them Keralites — who had gone there with the help of job agents. Mr. Chandy, who inaugurated the seminar, thanked Mr. Tytler for his initiatives to find a solution to the problems being faced by overseas Indians. The Chief Minister said that there had been many tragic cases of women from Kerala, who had gone to the Gulf countries on job visas, getting persecuted. After he was convinced that recruiting agencies were cheating job-seekers to the Gulf countries, licences of nearly 300 agencies were cancelled. An inquiry was going on into complaints received against a few others.
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