UPs first Protector of Emigrants opens in Rae Bareli today

Uttar Pradesh will get its first office of Protector of Emigrants in Rae Bareli on Wednesday.

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Uttar Pradesh will get its first office of Protector of Emigrants in Rae Bareli on Wednesday. The office will give emigration clearance to workers going abroad,issue registration certificates to recruiting agents,act as a link between recruiting agents and workforce and also safeguard the interests of the workforce by providing assistance and monitoring recruiting agents.

The office will be inaugurated by Union Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi Wednesday. While senior officials of the ministry say that increasing population from UP going abroad is the main reason for opening the office,they failed to justify choosing Rae Bareli for the purpose and not a centrally located place like the state capital.

Rae Bareli is the Lok Sabha constituency of Congress president Sonia Gandhi. Workers are required to take final clearance from the office of Protector of Emigrants a few days before they are supposed to fly abroad. Since Rae Bareli does not have any international airport,workers will have to come to Lucknow to take their flights abroad. The city is 80 km away from Rae Bareli.

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UP has become significant in past three years in emigration,overtaking even Kerala. However,specific reasons for selecting Rae Bareli are best known to the higher-ups said a senior official of the ministry. He added,Not many know but apart from the conventional labourers going to Middle East from India,young people are going to countries like Malaysia and Thailand to work at shopping centres. Thus,the office would initiate process of bringing employment from abroad.

In the past,emigration cases from UP were handled by the Delhi office of Protector of Emigrants. The Rae Bareli office will be the 10th office of the Protector of Emigrants. The existing nine are in Delhi,Mumbai,Chennai,Kolkata,Hyderabad,Chandigarh,Thiruvananthapuram,Cochin and Jaipur. Sources said the ministry is planning to open its next office in Guwahati.

Earlier,Sonia Gandhi was expected to participate in the programme but her visit was cancelled.

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