`India should implement policy for Intl migration`

Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 2 (PTI) India should implement a
policy on international labour as there is a need to regulate
recruiting agents and ensure security and safety of migrant
workers, particularly the unskilled ones, a labour resource
centre affiliated to UGC has said.
"India accounts for the largest number of skilled,
semi-skilled and unskilled migrants. There is an urgent need
to regulate the recruiting agents to ensure the security of
the migrants, particularly the unskilled workers," J Johan,
executive director of New Delhi-based Centre for Education and
Communication told PTI ahead of a meet of the Global Forum on
Migration and Development (GFMD) which kicked off today at
Athens.
Stressing the need for a policy on international
migration, Johan said an inter-governmental system should be
evolved for the mobility of unskilled workers.
"There is a need to build a South Asian perspective on
migration, including visa free regime and work permit among
SAARC countries. There should be wider avenues for legal cross
border migration," he said.
India, which is the largest recipient of worker's
remittances in the world, had received USD 28 billion in
2007-08. "Most of these remittances are made by unskilled and
semi-skilled migrants...This makes it particularly important
to explore the link between migration and development in
India," he said.
Problems and issues connected with women migrants also
need to be viewed seriously, he said. PTI