Daily Current Affairs Article 8th January 2021: The Union Cabinet has approved the signing of a memorandum of cooperation between India and Japan, on a basic framework for partnership for proper operation of the system pertaining to "specified skilled worker".
The MOC would set an institutional mechanism for partnership and cooperation between India and Japan on sending and accepting skilled Indian workers, who have qualified the required skill and Japanese language test, to work in fourteen specified sectors in Japan.
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These Indian workers would be granted a new status of residence of "Specified Skilled Worker" by the Government of Japan.
Implementation Strategy: Under this MOC, a Joint Working Group will be set up to follow up the implementation of this MOC.
Major Impact: It would enhance people-to -people contacts, foster mobility of workers and skilled professionals from India to Japan.
