NRIs in the gulf to get facilitation centre

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According to Minister for overseas Indian affairs

March 31, 2008

The Indian government will soon establish a facilitation centre in the Indian Mission in Dubai. According to a Press Trust of India report, the facilitation centre will provide legal, medical and financial counselling services to the Indian expatriates in the Gulf.

This information was made by the Union Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi in Panaji. Speaking at the conference on the Indian expatriates in Gulf countries held at a city hotel and organised by the office of the Commission for NRI Affairs, Mr Ravi said that his ministry has established an Overseas Indian Facilitation Centre as a not-for-profit trust in partnership with Confederation of Indian Industry and it would be a one-stop shop for the diaspora seeking to invest in India and facilitate business and business partnerships by providing reliable and real-time information.

He said to make higher education accessible to the children of overseas Indians his ministry has launched a scholarship scheme in 2006-07 in which 100 scholarship are provided each year to children of expatriates to undertake undergraduate courses in different disciplines in the country.

Lauding the role played by NRIs in the development of their country, the Union Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs promised to do everything in his power to help streamline immigration procedures and look after the interests of the Indian expatriates all over the world.

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