HYDERABAD: Indian workers left in the lurch after having to leave Afghanistan abruptly should be given a work visa to the United States, the Pravasi Mithra Labour Union (PMLU) has demanded.
“Not just the United States but they can be provided employment in all NATO countries as our people had served their security forces,” the labour union’s president Swadesh Parikipandla told TOI.
The union claimed that the United States had evacuated a few thousand Afghans who had worked in the army camps and taken them to the US. The same benefit should be given to the Indian workers too, the union said.
Parikipandla also said they would be collecting details of all Indian workers who have returned from Afghanistan after serving at the NATO camps.
The PMLU president said that the United States’ consulate authorities in Hyderabad would also be approached for rehabilitation of these workers.
The Pravasi Mithra Labour Union has asked NATO nations to give employment to Indian workers who returned from Afghanistan as they have served their secutity forces
