With nursing emerging as a lucrative profession for an average Keralite, government agencies have now set a new benchmark in recruiting nurses to various countries.
Two government agencies — NoRKA-Roots, the field agency of the Department of Non-Resident Keralites Affairs (NoRKA), and ODEPC (Overseas Development and Employment Promotion Consultants), a Kerala government undertaking — have together recruited 12,788 nurses to various countries, including those in Europe, over the years.
While ODEPC has been engaged in the recruitment of nurses for long, NoRKA-Roots jumped into the bandwagon recently following the huge demand for nurses from the State in foreign countries. While NoRKA-Roots recruited 2,540 nurses for various countries in the past five years, ODEPC recruited 3,095 nurses in six years, including the first two quarters of the current fiscal.
