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| May 16, 2012 | Govt determined to facilitate return of Indians stranded in Angola: MEA | | New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Wednesday said the government is determined to facilitate return of Indian workers stranded in Angola . "As far as those workers are concerned, that should any of them want to comeback to India, the Embassy would be willing to provide them emergency certificates; so, to travel out of Angola, for any of them is not an issue. Also, I have seen reports that, some of them are starving
and there is no truth in those reports, they are being provided food," said MEA
official spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin. "So, there is no starvation, out there.
Of course, they are in a difficult situation, and we are trying to work out with
authorities on this. Right now, one of our embassy officials is in Sumbe, trying
to work out with the company officials there," he added. Reportedly, 1,200 Indians
working at a cement plant in Angola were stuck in the southern African country
consequent to the non-payment of their dues. As for the absence of passports,
Akbaruddin said that this was bound to upset the workers but assured that visas
would facilitate their safe passage back home. He also said that one worker injured
in the protest against the management of the cement plant is being treated in
a local hospital. "The passports are not available with them that gives them a
feeling of insecurity and that is understandable, But the visa issue is peripheral
to this and let us not focus on that, there are other much more fundamental issues
about their payments about some of them wanting to return, willing and trying
to return and also obviously I understand one of them is injured because of the
violent clashes there. He is being treated in the hospital," said Akbaruddin.
" Some of them are missing because in that police confrontation, with the police
and the management, some of them perhaps left the premises. Our hope is to try
and work out with the company, to try and resolve the issue amicably and assist
our nationals wherever they are in distress," he added. Akbaruddin further mentioned
about the air mishap in Nepal on Monday that claimed 15 lives of whom 13 were
Indians. He said that the government had ensured the return of all 13 bodies of
the Indians killed in the crash among whom two were identified today. "Of the
thirteen Indians, who were involved in the tragic air crash in Nepal , the bodies
of eleven have reached India ; these are to Mumbai, to Hyderabad and to Delhi
. Eleven of these bodies have comeback. Two have been, this morning been identified
by their relatives and we are making arrangements for the return those two also,"
he said. The Dornier aircraft owned by private Agni Air Company was ferrying 18
passengers and a crew of three on a flight from the resort town of Pokhara to
Jomsom when it crashed while landing at the mountain airstrip.
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