Indians In ECR Countries To Benefit From Pension-Insurance Scheme
By PTI
New Delhi: Indian workers residing in Emigration Check Required (ECR) countries will soon be able to avail life insurance and pension benefits under a government scheme.
"Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Suraksha Yojana (MGPSY) has been launched in UAE. The scheme will soon be launched in other Emigration Check Required (ECR) countries," Overseas Indian Affairs minister Vayalar Ravi today said addressing a conference of Indian Heads of Missions in ECR countries.
More than 50 lakh Indians work in the ECR countries on temporary employment or contract visas predominantly in the construction, healthcare and household services sectors.
Ravi asked the Heads of Missions to proactively work on the implementation of MGPSY and said that this would greatly benefit the workers in these countries.
"It provides the overseas Indian workers a pension, a sum for return and resettlement and life insurance during the period of five years," the minister said.
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