New Delhi: Ministry for Overseas Indian Affairs has blacklisted 14 Qatari companies at the recommendation of the country's embassy.
Another 40 local firms have been put on the mission's watch-list following complaints from Indian workers about not fulfilling their contractual obligations.
"This is only a watch-list and as and when a company is found to have improved its track record, its name would be removed from it," PTI quoted George Joseph, the Indian ambassador to Qatar as saying.
Half-a-dozen Indians, including two maids, are languishing at the detention centre for over six months. The Qatari authorities are said to be tracking their sponsors to retrieve their passports.
The mission, while putting the total number of Indians held at the deportation centre by March 1 this year at 87, said the figure was down from a high of 146 in January.
There are 25 maids among the 87 Indian detainees, a senior mission official said.
The Qatari authorities have eased visa restrictions for Indians and this literally has opened a floodgate. A lot of Indians are coming here to take up professional, semi-skilled and unskilled jobs, Joseph added.
(with agency inputs)
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