Building a Wider
Horizon With Labour
On paper, Umar Chand Sharma belongs nowhere. Construction giant Saudi Oger denied the 50-year-old Indian his passport alongside the yearly work permit - 'Iqama' - for workers in Saudi Arabia, leaving Sharma and thousands of Indians, Sri Lankans, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Filipinos, French and Sudanese without pay, food, electricity and medical services for the last eight months.
