Exploitation

       From past one and half decades foreign countries becomes magnet to the youth of India especially of northern India, Punjab is top in the list whose youth dreams to go foreign country at any cost legally or illegally to fulfill their ambitions of upliftment economically, thus travel agents get chance to exploit them not only financially but physically also they face lot of difficulties once they comes into contact of travel agents and until they not reach their destinations as then their struggle and hard work begins, but despite hard work they not be able to earn handsome money compare to their work because their employers know these guys status are illegal ,so they can’t give them work through papers.After landing in any country illegally when youth faces hard facts and ground reality then they feel cheated because to reach any country youth pay lakhs of rupees which they hand over to travel agents after selling lands and to earn amount they spent takes lot of time, left them with no options but just put themselves in the hands of destiny and ready to churn in the teeth of exploitation. Story of these guys often highlighted in the newspapers and media also try their level best to aware the youth about the hard facts of foreign countries if one reaches their illegally then it is not safe, it is full of risks and sometimes it takes life also, whose example no body India will ever forget of Malta incidence in which scores of Punjabi lost their lives as the boat drowned. Question rises here despite knowing the risks why youth opted to go foreign country illegally? Its simple and straight forward answer is that youth is not satisfied with the opportunities available here to them and they consider they are not equivalents to the foreign countries.
      As per news from north India every year thousands of youth try their luck illegally to settle in any other country, Travel Agents often misguided youth ( youth should understand that if life is easy and full of rosy then why travel agents not settle their or send their relatives or friends ).Travel agents prepare false documents so that aspiring should fit in that category and collect from them huge money along with it pass on advise to them that until they not reach their destination don’t show your passport to any body and once you landed just rip off your passport and other documents so that your any evidence or mode of travel not left behind as proof .Stories which are facts of illegal destinations are countless but recently below coded destinations which were misused rather exploited by travel agents are :-

• Italy - Just seven to eight years back Italy Government relax visa norms for some categories of professionals but considering this opportunity travel agents collect somewhere four to eight lakhs of rupees from countless youth and send them Italy but seeing the glut of illegal migrants Italy Government now extending visas of only that persons who have work their, rest found its tough to settle their.
• Australia - Every year from India thousands of youth went to Australia on study basis, one fourth of them not genuine students but travel agents after collecting huge money from them send them Australia and left them on to the mercy of their luck which not always favours them.
• England –After Australia become bad for Indian students because of racial attacks travel agents picked England as their destination to send fake students and earn money, but seeing jumps by the aspiring students from north India United Kingdom Government found something fishy and they immediately took action and cancel the licenses of suspicious colleges and temporarily bans accepting application from north Indians students whose prove is below coded stats –

1. Till December 2007 total 1200 students’ visa aspirants.
2. December 2008 numbers of students were 1800.
3. Till December 2009 total students applicant were 13,500.
4. As per figures available in the month of January 2010 it touches’ the figure of 1,000 in a single day.

• Georgia – Latest addition of travel agents destination to send students to Georgia and they are sending youth in the disguise of students from there they will move on their desire country but genuine and illegal both type of students are finding hard to live their despite living in a room as dormitory but because of high value of Georgian currency and less opportunities to work they are finding it very difficult and they become victim of such condition just because of greenery shown to them which in reality not exists in Georgia.

    Government Agencies should take stern actions against these agents who are in this practice as they are playing with the lives and money of innocent youth, at the same time if youth get in India good opportunities, chance to work and earn here,then why should anybody will ever think to leave house, family and go abroad illegally where nothing is sure from work to life.