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Back home: Some of the workers rescued from Malaysia by an NGO on their arrival at the Chennai airport on Friday. — Chennai: Forty workers from Tamil Nadu and three from Kerala arrived at the Chennai Airport on Friday from Malaysia, where they were rescued from inhuman working conditions. The workers from Tamil Nadu, most of them belonging to Tuticorin, Madurai and Virudhunagar districts, had gone to Malaysia nearly two years ago through an agent who promised them excellent jobs and decent working conditions on a monthly salary of Rs. 85,000. They reached Chennai by a Jet Airways flight at 10.50 a.m. S. Manikandan, one of the Tamil Nadu coordinators for Thamizhar Meetpu Kuzhu, a non-governmental organisation helping in rescuing stranded workers in the South East Asian nation, told reporters that after they landed in Malaysia , the workers were not given any job for six months. Later, they were forced to do menial jobs for as long as 20 hours a day at a meagre salary not exceeding Rs.4,000 a month. Attempts by various groups to rescue the workers would automatically result in their employers cancelling their work permits in connivance with Immigration authorities in Malaysia. These employers would then lodge complaints with police and Immigration authorities following which the innocent workers would be arrested on charges of overstaying on the duration specified in their Visa permits, Mr. Manikandan said. The employers would also tonsure the heads of these workers if they made any attempt to escape, complain or voice their grievances to anyone outside the place of their work. Mr. Manikandan said that the problems faced by these 43 workers was only a sample of the working conditions in industries, ports and other factories in Malaysia. Youth, mostly from rural areas of the State, were lured with offers of good jobs and monthly salaries. Convinced by the promises of manpower agents, the unsuspecting youths would give cash ranging between Rs.50,000 and Rs.1 lakh. Some of them would even pledge their family property to get the job, Mr. Manikandan said, adding that at least a few thousand young men from Tamil Nadu were working in similar conditions, getting stranded when they attempt to return home.
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