Panel to monitor plaints against illegal recruiting agents soon

PANJIM, MAY 28 
Goa Government will soon constitute a committee under the chairmanship of NRI Affairs Commissioner Eduardo Faleiro to monitor complaints against illegal recruiting agents, which are presently pending with the police department for years together.
Faleiro, addressing a press conference Friday morning here, said that the committee headed by him would meet every two months and keep track of the complaints filed against unscrupulous illegal recruiting agents.
He said the NRI Commission is trying hard to see that those migrating abroad do not fall prey to unscrupulous agents.
Persons coming from economically poor background wanting to earn some money by migrating abroad often succumbed to the promises made by illegal recruiting agents, who charged huge fees.
Faleiro said complaints are received about such unscrupulous recruitment agents and complaints are also filed with the police. But they don’t seem to be taken to the logical end, he felt.
“Often, when the person reaches the destination country, he is either jobless or is given a job not of his choice. That job pays a lot less than the one promised,” Faleiro said.
The commissioner also said that he would a print and television media awareness campaign was also on the cards to warn job seekers about illegal recruiters.
He also mooted setting up of an ‘Emergency Repatriation Fund’ to help such souls in distresses abroad.
“The fund will extend financial assistance in the most deserving cases of repatriation of Goan workers when they and their families are not in a position to meet the expenses,” he said.
Replying to other questions, he felt that the administration could be further fine-tuned so that discipline is reinforced.
Faleiro said that two crucial schemes dealing with NRI affairs were derailed due to sheer administrative inefficiency.
These two schemes were to be included in the last budget but it didn’t happen due to incompetence and negligence of one senior officer.
Nonetheless, Faleiro also praised Chief Minister Digamber Kamat “as a good and efficient person”, who was implementing various good projects in the State.