Bahrain group to hire 25,000 Indians in 3 months

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Bahrain-based Nasser S Al-Hajri (NSH) Corporation has 28,000 Indians on its 35,000-strong rolls and is on a tailspin to recruit another 25,000 Indians in the next three months. Urgently needed are safety experts, engineers and management experts to welders, plumbers, electricians and those with a whole gamut of skillsets for the construction sector.

Ravi Pillai, founder and managing director of the $250-million behemoth in industrial contracting and oil and gas processing, denied that the hiring spree smacked of acute skilled labour shortage in Gulf.

"On the other hand, this indicates the happy outburst of construction activity worldwide. Naser S Al-Hajri Corp's workbook is choking with big projects and that's making job market bullish," he told FE.

A recepient of this year's President's Pravasi Bharateeya Samman, Pillai has an obsession that at least 80% of his employees should be Indians. "Actually we need 30,000 skilled workers in our company in three months, and the big bulk of these we would like to be Indians who can team well with the US, African, Chinese and Japanese nationals in NSH," Pillai said.

The group, diversifying into steel and cement sector recently, has decided to take 1000 fresh engineering recruits this year. The company has business footprints on Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE.

"There is perhaps no other job situation where an Indian welder or plumber can earn as much as Rs 40,000 to Rs 50,000 per month on their first job," he claims.