02 February 2008
To recruit 30,000 skilled Indian workers

Bahrain-based Nasser S Al-Hajri (NSH) Corporation, on a major expansion spree, required 30,000 skilled workers in the next three months. These include safety experts, engineers and management experts to welders, plumbers, electricians and those with a whole gamut of skill sets for the construction sector.

Ravi Pillai, founder and managing director of the $250-million behemoth in industrial contracting and oil and gas processing, said the demand only reflected the construction boom in the Kingdom and the region. Naser S Al-Hajri Corp''s workbook is choking with big projects and that's making the job market bullish," he said.

"We need 30,000 skilled workers in our company in three months and the big bulk of these we would like to be Indians who can team well with the US, African, Chinese and Japanese nationals in NSH," Pillai told Indian media during his ongoing visit there.

The group, diversifying into steel and cement sector recently, has decided to take 1000 fresh engineering recruits this year. The company has business footprints on Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE.

Pillai, also chairman of Dubai-based Versailles Hotel and Air Choice Travel and Tourism, intends to set up star hotels in Delhi and Chennai at an investment of Rs.120 crore each besides a Rs. 100-crore medical tourism venture and Rs. 120-crore lakeside hotel in Kollam in Kerala.

© Bahrain Tribune 2008