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The Indian government has had enough of its own countrymen facing an unfair competitive edge in the workplace. This new resolve has been demonstrated by announcing measures that not only include new immigrants but existing expats as well. Thousands are said to be effected.
The excerpt is from an article entitled: - India Revokes Work Visas to Protect Its Workers.
Thousands of foreign workers in India have been given until the end of today to be out of that country in a visa clampdown which is designed to protect Indian labourers from outside competition.
The Indian government has announced the measures to protect its workforce from being undercut by cheaper foreign labourers, who come from South East Asian countries.
The clampdown will also affect all expatriates working in India on business visas. Under the new regulations, a smaller number of such visas will be issued. This is to protect skilled workers as well.
Those who fail to meet the government’s new criteria for the business visa have to leave India by midnight and can only return if they meet the stricter criteria for a full employment visa.
“If a foreign national is employed in India, he must have the right kind of visa,” Home Secretary G.K. Pillai said in New Delhi this week.
The number of expatriates affected by the change was not known, but experts said they expected thousands to be caught in the net.
India is joining the ranks of countries that are actively doing something to protect the working life of their own nationals. How long will it be do you think before the British government does something to actively protect ours? My own suspicion is that this will not occur until the British National Party gets enough votes in successive domestic general elections to scare the living daylights out of the New Labour/Blue Labour political establishment.
