India-Japan Ink Pact on Movement of Skilled Labours
On 18th January, 2021, India and Japan signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) to boost the mobility of skilled Indian workers in 14 fields, including nursing, industrial machinery, shipbuilding, aviation, agriculture and the food services industry.
- The present MoC would set an institutional mechanism for partnership and cooperation between India and Japan on sending and accepting skilled Indian workers, who have qualified the required skill and Japanese language test, to work in fourteen specified sectors in Japan.
- These Indian workers would be granted a new status of residence of Specified Skilled Worker (SSW)by the Government of Japan.
Japan’s Need for Workers
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