A group of Indian workers sleeping under an overbridge in the busy High Way . Despite all rhetorics by the Government, ministers and diplomats about welfare measures targeting Indian workers in the Gulf, their plight remains same. A pravasi Bharathiya Divas is being organised by the Government of India on the basis of recommendations made by an expert committee. However, these type of people who constitute more than 70 per cent of the Non Resident Indians in the Gulf are kept away from the mainstream Indian community and Indian diplomats mostly prefer to talk about them. Currently a senior Bureaucrat is touring the Gulf region promoting a Non Resident Indians Day on January 9, 2002.

However, such extravaganza are mainly for the affluent sections of NRIs. Does anyone in the bureaucracy or Indian missions treat these people as NRIS? The jet set senior bureaucrats visit various Gulf countries spending the tax payers money, wine and dine with the rich and affluent NRIs and businessmen and present a rosy picture about the Indian community. Will anybody invite at least one of the thousands of such Non Required Indians to attend and discuss the Pravasi problems ???(keralamonitor.com)