Govt starts massive "profile building" exercise of workers returned from abroad

The government had launched the Swades (Skilled Workers Arrival Database for Employment Support) initiative to conduct a skill mapping exercise of returning workers. A total of 84,497 workers returned from the UAE, 50,536 from Oman, 49,000 from Saudi Arabia, 44,248 from Kuwait, 30,509 from Qatar and 14,920 from Bahrain.