Member countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have witnessed the largest number of deaths of Indian workers during 2019 to 2021 that included the pandemic season. In response to a question in Parliament, the Government on Friday laid down the numbers that revealed that the highest number of deaths of Indian labourers took place in the United Arab Emirates and the Saudi Arabia during this period.
The largest number of Indian labourers died in Saudi Arabia in 2020 when 3,753 workers perished. A year later, the numbers dropped to 2,328. Both the years were marked by the pandemic, which saw health and employment-related crises for the workers as apart from the pandemic.
A large number of companies had stopped operation creating difficult living conditions. However, it is not known how many of these workers might have succumbed to bad working conditions. The number of deaths of the labourers was at 2,353 in Saudi Arabia in 2019.
