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RESOLUTION 6
Marriage Abuses
WHEREAS, several incidents have been brought to the attention of GOPIO and Indian missions abroad about the spousal abuses where unsuspecting young ladies from India get married to overseas males and then are tortured in various ways, and
WHEREAS, GOPIO would assist the efforts of Government of India to protect its citizens from being abused,
THEREFORE, GOPIO urges the government to create a mechanism to help these abused and deserted brides.
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Since
Delhi airport becomes victim to fog, rendering
flight schedules ineffective and making travel
unpredictable, GOPIO urges the govt to address
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RESOLUTION 7
PRICE DIFFERENTIATION FOR PIOs FOR HOTELS & ARCHEOLOGICAL SITES
WHEREAS, it may be understandable that those who can afford should pay more, it is a poor policy to differentiate between the citizens of India and NRIs/PIOs by asking them to pay more for the same hotel accommodation and for the same entrance ticket to the archeological sites such as Taj Mahal,
THEREFORE, GOPIO urges the Government of India to stop this discriminatory practice.
RESOLUTION 8
REPEAL THE NEW VCA CLEARANCE RULES FOR ADOPTION OF ORPHANED CHILDREN FROM INDIA
WHEREAS India is a country of over 1.1 billion people with 44 million destitute children and over 12 million orphan children yet there are only 5000 adoptions every year;
WHEREAS GOPIO understands and respects the intent behind the VCA clearance for inter-country adoption requirements which is to ensure that Indians residing in India have the priority and opportunity to adopt children;
WHEREAS the implementation of the new rule may not significantly increase the pool of local Indian potential adoptive parents and will have a significant and potentially negative impact on the health and long-term development of the children, and
WHEREAS enforcement of this rule could greatly increase the amount of time children will spend in orphanages instead of being available for adoption by waiting NRI families, and
WHEREAS the NRI community is committed in its efforts to adopt orphan children from India in order to give them a better life in their adopted countries.
THEREFORE, GOPIO urges the concerned ministry & CARA to reconsider and revoke the new mandatory VCA clearance rules which came into effect in November 2003 because they not only make adoption from India significantly harder for NRIs but they also are counter-productive to the interests of orphans in India.
RESOLUTION 9
REHABILITATION OF POOR INDIAN WORKERS FROM GULF STATES & OTHER COUNTRIES
WHEREAS, so many Indian workers in the Gulf States have been cheated through “mistaken belief” of good jobs in the Gulf States, and
WHEREAS, employers in the Gulf states have abused and harassed these poor Indian workers by taking advantage of their helplessness to the extent that some of them have landed in Jails, and
WHEREAS, they neither get any legal help nor they have own resources (in fact, some of them even mortgaged their houses to pay for travel to the Gulf states),
THEREFORE, GOPIO urges the government to take measures to help in the rehabilitation of these poor workers through financial and legal assistance.
RESOLUTION 10
PRAVASI BHARATIYA DIVAS & PROBLEMS AT DELHI AIRPORT
WHEREAS PBD is celebrated around January 9, and
WHEREAS this time of the year is much more convenient for the NRIs/PIOs to travel to India due to the winter break for students at schools and colleges and in their employment schedule, thus creating heavier traffic, and
WHEREAS Delhi airport becomes victim to the fog, rendering the flight schedules ineffective and making travel plans unpredictable, inconvenient and quite often frustrating, and
WHEREAS technology exists to help minimise flight landing/take-off disruptions to a minimum.
THEREFORE GOPIO urges the government to address this issue of fog at Delh airport.
—Empire Bureau
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February 2006
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