ICTA help for foreign job seekers

Ramani KANGARAARACHCHI

The ICT Agency of Sri Lanka will provide information to Sri Lankan citizens seeking employment abroad in the near future.

ICTA Chief Executive Officer Reshan Dewapura said this facility will help to minimize various difficulties that Sri Lankan employees working abroad face now.

This facility would specially enable Sri Lankan expatriate employees to ascertain whether the 'agency' that assists them is genuine or bogus and to know the true salary scale applicable to their category of job in the foreign country they hope to be employed in.

Dewapura said the operation of the Foreign Employment Bureau has also been obtained to this project.

The ICT also has taken steps to provide computer knowledge to about 75,000 Samurdhi beneficiaries jointly with the Samurdhi Authority.

They can also obtain internet facilities through Nenasala, Vidatha centres.

This Samurdhi website also features a blog created by beneficiaries which contributes to the improvement of its beneficiaries.