The government is setting up a mechanism to track citizens going abroad for jobs and studies.
Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday chaired an inter-ministerial meeting to create a database of employment in the country, as well as establish a mechanism to collect data of citizens going abroad for jobs and studies, the government said in a statement.
The deliberations with the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and NITI Aayog were aimed at strengthening coordination and data assimilation for both overseas employment and domestic job creation, as well as to enhance the monitoring of recruiting agencies and skill requirements for employment abroad.
Mandaviya highlighted the need for a mechanism to have complete data of citizens going abroad for jobs / studies to (Emigration-Check Required) ECR / Non-ECR countries; and suggested that there should be an integration of National Career Service (NCS) portal, MY Bharat Platform, MADAD, eMigrate, eShram portals, state portals for a comprehensive view of supply and demand side of employment.
ECR countries are countries that don’t have strict laws for regulating the entry and employment of foreign nationals.
Mandaviya further emphasized that industry associations can play a pivotal role in collating the employment data, and called NITI Aayog to facilitate the compilation of employment related data from various Ministries, the release said.
At the meeting, it was emphasized that contracts with foreign employers should be standardized and the Migration and Mobility Partnership Arrangements (MMPA) & Social Security Agreements (SSA) should be reviewed to get feedback on efficacy of its provisions, it said.