India-Romania Mobility Pact Opens Pathway for 30,000 Skilled Indian Professionals Annually
SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth | SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals
Institutions: Ministry of Commerce & Industry | Ministry of Labour & Employment
During the 19th meeting of the India-Romania Joint Committee for Economic Cooperation in Bucharest, India and Romania agreed to establish a skills-mobility pathway for approximately 30,000 Indian professionals each year, aligned with Romania’s non-EU labour market requirement of roughly 100,000 workers annually.
The two countries will cooperate on vocational training, qualification recognition, fast-track employment contracts and explore a social security (totalisation) agreement. India emphasised its demographic dividend (working-age population over 1 billion, median age 29) and its growing role as a global manufacturing & technology hub (hosting ~45% of global capability centres).
The initiative furthers India’s mission under the “Skill India” and “Make in India” programmes to enable global employment and mobility of Indian talent, while enhancing bilateral labour-market integration and institutionalising people-to-people links with the EU region.
What is a skills-mobility pathway? → It is a structured mechanism by which workers from one country gain access to jobs in another—through training, credential recognition, contract standardisation and social-security safeguards—thereby enabling regular, safe, and beneficial cross-border labour flows.
Relevant Question for Policy Stakeholders:
How can India leverage the India-Romania mobility accord as a model and scale similar frameworks with other countries to multiply global employment opportunities for Indian professionals?
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