The call centre, a bilingual facility in Punjabi and English, comes as a follow-up to the decisions taken during the NRI Sammelan held in Chandigarh and Jalandhar in January this year.
Disclosing this, Harcharan Bains, Media Advisor to the Punjab Chief Minister, said that in addition to the Call Centre, the NRI-specific official website of the state government would also function as a logistic back-up for increased facilitation of government-to-NRI interaction.
It may be mentioned here that about 7.0 million NRIs of Punjabi Origin are settled in different parts of the world, with Canada U.K., U.S.A, Malaysia, Australia, Germany, Italy, Spain and some countries in the middle-east being the favoured destinations.
Meanwhile, the Punjab Government today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs in the Government of India for putting in place a structured mechanism for the welfare of Punjabis going to or already settled in different countries across the world.
The MOU was signed in the presence of the Punajb Chief Minister with Chief Secretary Ramesh Inder Singh and K Mohan Das, Secretary, Ministry of Overseas India Affairs representing the State and the Union governments respectively.
