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Dangers in overseas recruitment Law & order

Cases of cheating relating to overseas recruitment keep recurring despite efforts by the city police, writes
Anand Haridas.

Despite efforts by the city police, cases of cheating relating to overseas recruitment keep recurring. The representatives of the Manpower Exporters’ Association put the monthly figure of such cases between 20 and 30.

A recent development that made news was a complaint by the parent of a student who gained admission to a nursing college in Georgia. The complaint lodged with the City Police Commissioner said that the representative of the educational institution promised training and job placement in the U.S. or any other Western country on completion of the two-year degree course.

However, the student returned after one year, complaining that all the claims were bogus. “This complaint has to be verified through the Indian Embassy in Georgia and also by the Department of Education,” Manoj Abraham, City Police Commissioner, said.

Instructions given

The city police have left strict instructions in the past year with all hotels and convention centres in the city against renting out space for conducting interviews for overseas recruitment or seminars for education abroad without written permission from the office of the City Police Commissioner.

“For getting this permission, the agency should produce the originals of documents authorising them to do the procedure and also prove the credentials of the organisation to which admissions are being made. Because of this, recruiters have moved to Kottayam and Thiruvananthapuram of late,” Mr. Abraham said.

Awareness seminar

The Manpower Exporters’ Association plans to hold a seminar, in association with the city police, in January to create awareness among the agencies and the public of the changes that have taken place in the global scene.

“It is important to note that many aspirants of overseas jobs do not realise that with the strengthening of the Indian Rupee and the spiralling cost of living abroad, it is not a good proposition to seek placement abroad. Most of these candidates will be able to find better jobs inside the country. The seminar will focus on this paradigm shift,” said Chacko T. Varghese of the association.

Other aspects that will be dealt with in the seminar are new rules in issuing recruitment licences and procedures on opening NRI bank accounts. “Recruitment licences are not given to all foreign countries,” Mr. Varghese said. Almost all victims of fake recruitment agencies are ignorant of this fact. They end up paying for visas to places where no licence for recruitment is given.

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