The Vides Balaya Organisation has urged the Government to digitalise the foreign employment and migration sector to prevent human trafficking and smuggling.
Vides Balaya Coordinator Janaka Ballalla told the Daily News that human trafficking and irregularities in foreign employments and migration and related activities should be digitilised soon to protect foreign job seekers.
Fraudulent activities in this sector are rampant. Young people arriving Dubai from Sri Lanka on visit visas being hoodwinked by racketeers and they are suffering in streets for months because they cannot find jobs.
“There is a controversy in Oman recently, which could have affected diplomatic relations between Oman and Sri Lanka,” he said.
If it is possible to bring information in this regard with one digital platform, human trafficking and smuggling can be stopped. Therefore, the Labour Ministry has been requested to digitalise the sector to protect migrant workers.
Labour Minister Manusha Nanayakkara, therefore, has taken steps to digitalise the field of foreign employment and migration without any delay.
“We discourage those who provide bogus visas and passports for foreign employments via this system. The Middle East countries had asked Sri Lanka whether there is any system in recruiting workers for various jobs through online, which we don't have at present, the Minister told the Daily News.
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