Gulf dream sours, Indian expatriates face the axe

The Nitaqat programme in Saudi Arabia, aimed at ‘Saudising’ workplaces in the Arabian kingdom by ensuring a minimum of 10 per cent of employees in every firm there are its nationals, is spreading anxiety in several lakhs of Non-Resident Indian families in India. It is time for New Delhi, and especially Kerala, to worry about the possibility that this is, perhaps, the start of the end of the Gulf Dream. As per the Saudi programme, companies failing to comply with Nitaqat will have to shut shop and free visa holders.

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