Telangana labourers to be sent abroad for work

Telangana Overseas Manpower Company (TOMCOM) of the State government would soon send about 750 skilled and semi-skilled labourers to different countries with proper work visas.This was announced by Home Minister Naini Narasimha Reddy at a meet on ‘Safe Legal Migration, Overseas Employment, Role of Government Agencies, Diaspora: Telangana’, organised by TOMCOM here on Tuesday. 

The Minister informed that TOMCOM had in July sent 250 workers with proper work visas. He said that the Telangana government would coordinate with the Centre in resolving issues pertaining to migrant labourers in



different countries.

The Minister informed that every year about three crore Indians go out of the country in search of livelihood and of them 10 lakh were from Telangana. He said most of the labourers were attracted by the high salary, but suffer once there due to lack of proper skills, improper documents, lack of awareness on socio-cultural diaspora of the respective countries.

He said TOMCOM was formed as per the Central norms and license was issued by the Union government in January 2016. The aim of the company is to help migrant labourers to get good salary in leading companies.