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Labour in India refers to employment in the economy of India. In 2020, there were around 476.67 million workers in India, the second largest after China. [ 1] Out of which, agriculture industry consist of 41.19%, industry sector consist of 26.18% and service sector consist 32.33% of total labour force. [ 1]
The government of India launched the Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan initiative to tackle the impact of COVID-19 on migrant workers in India. It is a rural public works scheme which was launched on 20 June 2020 with an initial funding of ₹ 50,000 crore (equivalent to ₹ 590 billion or US$7.1 billion in 2023) for 116 districts in 6 states.
Indians in Korea are the migrant diaspora from India to Korea and their locally-born descendants. A majority of them live in Seoul and Busan, and smaller populations live in other parts of Korea. The Government of India's Ministry of External Affairs estimates the Overseas Indian population to be only 13,585 in South Korea.
Most Indians who signed contracts did so in the hope of returning to India with the fruits of their labour rather than intending to migrate permanently. The Indian Government appointed a Protector of Immigrants in Jamaica, although this office tended to protect the interests of the employers rather than the workers.
Indians in Italy comprise the second largest population of Indians in Continental Europe, after Indians in Germany. [1] [2] Although Italy and India have maintained important relations since ancient times, significant Indian migration to Italy is a recent phenomenon. Many Indians began immigrating to Italy in the early 1990s, when the Italian ...
As of 2019, about 48,724 people of Indian immigrant descent lived in the Netherlands. [ 1] Most of them live in the provinces of North Holland, South Holland and North Brabant . From 2016 to 2022 the population of Indians in the Netherlands doubled from 32,682 to 65,399 (Note that this number excludes Indo-Surinamese). [ 7]
That year, Indians working in Bangladesh sent more than $3.7 billion back to India. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] An op-ed article in The Daily Star mentions that this is the official figure. In contrast, the unofficial figure is estimated to be significantly more [ 7 ] and the article claims that most of them came on tourist visas and tended to stay back.
Indo-Guyanese or Indian-Guyanese, are Guyanese nationals of Indian origin who trace their ancestry to India and the wider subcontinent. They are the descendants of indentured servants and settlers who migrated from India beginning in 1838, and continuing during the British Raj . The vast majority of indentured labourers in Guyana came from ...