millenniumpost.in RNI NO.: WBENG/2015/65962 PUBLISHED FROM DELHI & KOLKATA VOL. 3, ISSUE 110 | Monday, 24 April 2017 | Kolkata | Pages 16 | Rs 3.00 NO HALF TRUTHS CM LEAVES FOR MEGA DEFENCE ‘BRITAIN’S SONAKSHI COOCH BEHAR, DEALS LIKELY CONSERVATIVES TO DOESN’T BELIEVE ALIPURDUAR TOUR DURING PM’S TRIP FOCUS ON BREXIT, IN PLEASING TODAY PG3 TO ISRAEL PG5 ENERGY IN POLL’ PG10 EVERYBODY PG16 Quick News44 THESE IT BIGGIES APPARENTLY CORNERED A LION’S SHARE OF VISAS FRANCE VOTES IN Govt to ensure 60-yr limit followed for senior US accuses TCS, Infosys of ELECTION HUMDINGER citizen benefit MOST UNPREDICTABLE PREZ POLL IN DECADES PARIS: France began voting on MPOST BUREAU violating H-1B visa norms Sunday under heavy security in the rst round of the most unpredict- NEW DELHI: e government wants minis- WASHINGTON: e US has administration comment. able presidential election in decades, tries, departments and also private agencies to accused top Indian IT rms e ocial said H-1B visas with the outcome seen as vital for adopt ‘60 years’ as the uniform age criterion to TCS and Infosys of unfairly cor- presently were awarded through the future of the beleaguered Euro- dene senior citizens as to address anomalies nering the lion’s share of H-1B a random lottery with about 80 pean Union. in extending benets to the elderly. e Minis- visas by putting extra tickets in per cent of H-1B workers being Polling stations opened at 0600 try of Social Justice and Empowerment is con- the lottery system, which the paid less than the median wage GMT and the last will close at 1800 templating to bring in an amendment in the Trump administration wants to in their elds. “Only about 5 GMT with estimated results expected Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior replace with a more merit-based to 6 percent, depending on the shortly aerwards. the move”), that he says is “neither Citizens (MWPSC) Act, 2007, to implement this immigration policy. year, of H-1B workers com- Far-right leader Marine Le Pen to the le nor to the right.” change. e MWPSC Act denes senior citizens At a White House brief- mand the highest wage tier rec- and centrist Emmanuel Macron are But polls show scandal-tainted as any person who is a citizen of India and has ing last week, an ocial in the ognised by the Department of the favourites to progress to a run-o conservative candidate Francois Fil- attained the age of ‘60 years and above’. Trump administration said a Labour, there being four wage on May 7 but the result is too close to lon, a former prime minister, and e phrase ‘... and above’ is being manipu- small number of giant outsourc- tiers. And the highest wage tier, call in a deeply divided country. hard-le rebrand Jean-Luc Melen- lated by several agencies to deny benets under ing rms ood the system with for instance, in 2015, was only Le Pen, the 48-year-old leader of chon are also in with a ghting senior-citizen clauses by adopting dierent age applications which naturally 5 percent of H1B workers,” he the National Front (FN), hopes to chance of nishing among the top limits, a government ocial said. “It came to ups their chances of success in said. capitalise on security fears that were two candidates and reaching the all- our notice that several government departments the lottery draw. He said workers are oen catapulted to the fore of the campaign important second round. have adopted dierent age criteria for extending “You may know their names brought in well below market aer the fatal shooting of a policeman Hundreds of thousands of French the benets and the concessions meant for the well, but like the top recipients Jaitley flags H-1B concerns with rates to replace American work- on Paris’s Champs Elysees avenue expatriates in the US, Canada and elderly. Similarly, some private insurance com- of the H-1B visa are companies ers, again, sort of violating the claimed by the Islamic State group. South America cast their ballots on panies have set dierent age limits,” the ocial like Tata, Infosys, Cognizant -- US Treasury Secretary principle of the programme, Aiming to ride a wave of popu- Saturday. said. e eligibility criteria for extending travel they will apply for a very large which is supposed to be a means lism that led Donald Trump to the In the wake of the policeman’s concessions to senior citizens by Air India was number of visas, more than they WASHINGTON: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has raised the for bringing in skilled labour. White House and Britain to vote killing on ursday, 50,000 police and until recently 63 years. Last week, the national get, by putting extra tickets in issue of tightening of the H-1B visa regime with his US counter- “Instead you’re bringing in for Brexit, Le Pen also wants to pull 7,000 soldiers have been deployed carrier lowered it to 60 years. According to the the lottery rae, if you will, and part Steven Mnuchin during their rst meeting and highlighted a lot of times workers who are France out of the eurozone and has around France to protect voters. ocial, the Air India issue was taken up by for- then they’ll get the lion’s share the contribution of Indian companies and professionals to the actually less skilled and lower threatened to take the country out of Analysts believe the attack so late mer social justice minister Kumari Selja during of visas,” the senior ocial said, American economy. is was the second time Jaitley raised the paid than the workers that the EU as well. in the campaign could shi the focus the previous UPA government but had remained according to transcript of the H-1B visa issue with the American side during his visit here to they’re replacing,” he said. Her ambitions have led observers from the economy to security and unresolved. e Social Justice Ministry again brieng posted on White House attend the annual Spring Meetings of the International Monetary So if the current system that to predict that a Le Pen victory could hand an advantage to candidates seen took it up recently with Civil Aviation Minister website. Fund and the World Bank. He had also raised the issue with US awards visas randomly with- be a fatal blow for the EU, already as taking a hard line on the issue. Ashok Gajapathi Raju, following which the age Responding to a follow- up Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross earlier. During their meet- out regard for skill or wage is weakened by Britain’s vote to leave “If it were to benet someone, that limit was revised. on why Indian companies were ing on Saturday, Jaitley and Mnuchin discussed a wide range changed to a skills-based award- the bloc. Macron, only 39, is seek- would clearly be Marine Le Pen who In the Indian Railways, the eligibility for singled out for a mention, the of bilateral issues, in addition to the international cooperation ing, it would make it extremely ing to become France’s youngest ever has dominated this issue through- availing of concessions in the basic fares for White House response said Tata against terror nancing. Detailed report on P12 dicult to use the visa to replace president and has campaigned on a out the campaign, or Francois Fil- women is ‘58 years and above’ while for men it Consultancy Services, Infosys or undercut American work- strongly pro-EU and pro-business lon,” said Adelaide Zulkarpasic of is ‘60 years and above’. and Cognizant were the top (a year). By contrast, the median who oentimes use workers for ers, he said. “Because you’re not platform. the BVA polling institute. three recipients of H-1B visas. Silicon Valley soware engi- entry-level positions, capture bringing in workers at beneath Seeking to benet from a world- In the aermath of the attack, Le “And those three compa- neer’s wage is probably around the lion’s share of H-1B visas. the market wage. And so it’s wide move away from established Pen called for France to “immedi- nies are companies that have $ 150,000,” the ocial said. “And that’s all public record.” a very elegant way of solving political parties, the former banker ately” take back control of its borders Take care of an average wage for H-1B visas He said contracting rms All the three Indian rms problems in the H-1B guest and economy minister formed his from the EU and deport all foreigners students from between $ 60,000 and $ 65,000 that are not skills employers, refused to comment on the US worker visa,” he said. AGENCIES own movement, “En Marche” (“On on a terror watchlist. 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