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PRIMAS Deputy President, Mr. C. Krishnan, Vice President Mr. A. Sinnaiah @ Seenu and the Hon. Secretary, Mr. N. Shanmugam attended a meeting/Press Meet, headed by the Deputy Minister of Entrepreneur Development and Cooperatives, YB. Senator Pn. Saraswathy Kandasamy with industry players in the three sectors at Menara Bank Rakyat in Kuala Lumpur.
About 3,000 entrepreneurs in the country are expected to receive benefits, following Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's announcement that he approved part of the application for hiring foreign workers for three sectors, involving barber shops, textiles and gold shops that were previously frozen, the that entrepreneurs in the sector are in dire need of manpower, especially from India, especially ahead of the Deepavali celebration next November.
PRIMAS highlighted and submitted an appeal letter in regards to:-
1) the application through FWCMS/eQuota/Few, whereby PRIMAS members who have applied for eQuota before the 18th March 2023, and have yet to receive KSM's approval till to-date.
2) And pending application, yet for on-line submission through FWCMS, as was freezed/postponed from 18th March 2023 onwards.