A group of 10 migrants returned to Andhra Pradesh from the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, availing the amnesty declared by the government. This batch is the latest among several such groups of migrants returning home over the past few weeks with financial help from NRI donors in UAE and USA, and members of NRI associations in India.
Narrating their harrowing experiences in the Gulf nation, the returnees said many were ill-treated by their employers and cheated when it came to matters of compensation. "I went from place to place looking for work but was exploited nearly everywhere," said R N Veeranna, who spent six years in Dubai engaged in manual labour. "One employer paid me only one month's salary after I worked for six months. I did not have a place to stay and slept under a car several times," he added.
In another case, 40-year-old P Kumari, hailing from West Godavari, who worked there as a housemaid, said for five years she lived in a single room apartment with six other women in deplorable conditions, with hardly any place to sleep and in unhygienic surroundings. Full story...
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Narrating their harrowing experiences in the Gulf nation, the returnees said many were ill-treated by their employers and cheated when it came to matters of compensation. "I went from place to place looking for work but was exploited nearly everywhere," said R N Veeranna, who spent six years in Dubai engaged in manual labour. "One employer paid me only one month's salary after I worked for six months. I did not have a place to stay and slept under a car several times," he added.
In another case, 40-year-old P Kumari, hailing from West Godavari, who worked there as a housemaid, said for five years she lived in a single room apartment with six other women in deplorable conditions, with hardly any place to sleep and in unhygienic surroundings. Full story...
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