“As of 6pm on Saturday, we received more than 150,000 registrations,” Consul General of India in Dubai, Vipul, told Gulf News.
A quarter of them want to return to their homeland after losing their jobs, he said.
“About 40 percent of the applicants are workers and 20 per cent are professionals. Overall, 25 percent have cited job-loss as the reason for leaving the country.”
