New Delhi: Action was taken against 206 recruitment agencies and agents, with a maximum of them in Maharashtra (126), during the last one year for fraudulent activities, parliament was told yesterday.
Minister of State for Overseas Indian Affairs and External Affairs General V K Singh (Retd) told the Lok Sabha that between December 1, 2013 and November 30, 2014, action was initiated against a total of 206 recruitment agencies and agents for fraudulent activities.
In the list of nine states, Maharashtra tops the list with the government taking action against 126 agencies and agents there, Delhi came second with 23 and Kerala with 14, according to the list circulated by the minister.
In 2013, a total of 56 registration certificates were issued to recruiting agents/agencies under Emigration Act, 1983, while this year a total of 65 applications have been for the registration certificate so far.
He said that from time to time complaints from emigrants/Indian workers abroad are received.
They include of violation of contractual obligations, pertaining to contracted job, salary and skilled manpower diverted to discharge menial work; furnishing false information relating to foreign employers to whom the emigrants are sent; fraudulently obtaining emigration clearance, by submitting false/ forged documents; providing visit visas to the emigrants instead of employment visa, which lands the emigrants under detention overseas.
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