"Majority of our citizens living abroad are people from humble origins; people who are struggling in adverse weather and living conditions; people who are at the mercy of their masters who often have little regard for human rights; people whose terms of contract have been violated and those who have been denied their salaries, leave and terminal benefits," he said, pointing at the plight of the NRIs, particularly those working in the Gulf."
Why is Chandy allowing citizens of "God's own country" to go to "Devil's Dens" (Gulf) and is shedding tears for them? Why doesn't he persuade them to remain under the protection of God in His own country.
RE:Devil's Dens
by Rajesh Chandramohanadas on Jan 15, 2006 06:10 PM Permalink
I dont know which state you belong to or what sort of information you have collected during your life so far. I am a malayali, and believe to bear some sort of a responsibility to convince the people with false ideas about the NRI community in Kerala.
The number of healthy and moderately eduducated (say human power)is really high in kerala in comparison to other indian states. Kerala is one place which was always open to foreign people and culture from pre-historic periods, making the people willing to explore different parts of the world .The current inrastructure in kerala doesnt allow a system where every keralite can find a job for living within the state, thanks to our say-no policy to industries.
How the people will survive at this outset ? They are regular people going abroad to feed their old parents or infants, and not to buy bungalows or BMWs! They are human beings with blood and tears, and their feelings should be taken into consideration before making a statement about it. Ours is a democratic country where the Presidents` and peasant`s votes weigh the same.H There are a number of cheaper labourers hired from Please, please dont post comments of this type !
i would like the aviation minister to take action against the discremation that takes place when we take a flight we booked tickets from mumbai through the net we paid indian rupees 56000 approx but when we came to the airport we discovered that we had to pay excess baggage though we had only 31kg weight in the bag when we confronted the staff he told us that if u buy a ticket in uk in pounds u r titiled to a weight of 32 kg and if u pay in rupees and book ticket in india u get a weight of 20 kg which is discrimation cause first of all we paid the same fare and why should we as indian who travel by our national airlines have such a disadvantage wereas when we travelled by emirates they gives 32 kg both was no matter who u r kindly look into this matter thanking u
From Kerala Chief Minister's statement it looks that The Central Government has not done anything concrete for the welfare of the Indians who go abroad basically in search of a livelihood. Is this the reason that Malayalees group together, Gujarathis group together in foreign lands and witness the Indians stay in different groups such as Telugu speaking Andhra Indians, Gujarathi speaking Indians and Madrasis etc.
If you look at the ste-wise statistics, keralites contribute to the maximum number of NRI population. Taken together with the low number of karalites (3.2 Crores) in comparison to Gujrat (5.1 crores) or Andhra (7.6 crores), the pecentage of NRI keralites is so high that in some districts, there is ATLEAST one NRI member. This is not the case in any other part of India. Moreover, these people are manuel labourers, and not good enough to communicate and convince the authorities in any other language excepet malayalam, making the unification mandatory for every regular keralite worker, especially in the midle east. One more thing, who told that there are no Gujrati, or Andhra groups among the NRI population ?? Please think for a while against your arguments as well before posting it !
