1.7. Government Policy and Steps

♤ Pravasi Bhartiya Divas Conventions

♤ OCI card

♤ Know India Programme

♤ VAJRA scheme for returning Indian scientists

♤ India has signed labour agreements with Jordan, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait and Oman.

♤ Social Security agreements with countries of Europe

♤ Indian Community Welfare Fund at all Missions and Posts abroad.

♤ Indian Worker Resource Centre (IWRC) has also been set up in Dubai, UAE that provides toll-free helpline and walk-in counselling facilities. Four more IWRCs have been approved in Sharjah, UAE, Riyadh and Jeddah in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.

♤ Special provision for NRIs to invest in the National Pension Scheme.

♤ Prime Minister’s Global Advisory Council (PMGAC) was set up as a high level platform, to draw upon the experience and knowledge of eminent people of Indian origin in diverse fields from across the world in January, 2009. So far five meetings have taken place.