CHENNAI: The Migrant Employees Education for Transformation, Prevention and Protection Union (MEETPPU), an NGO, in association with a Kuala Lumpur-based social worker T Kamalanathan, worked for the welfare of migrant workers from TN and collected details of labourers who went to Malaysia from the State and went missing there. Kamalanathan tried to trace them and made arrangements to send them back to India after completing legal formalities in Malaysia.When contacted by Express, the Indian High Commission in Kuala Lumpur said it was unaware that any Indian had died due to malnutrition in any camp in Malaysia, and no Indian in camps visited by the High Commission officials had drawn their attention. “Our visits require the approval of the Malaysian authorities and during such visits we have access only to the interview rooms in such detention camps,” an official from the Commission said. MEETTPU representatives, however, told Express that about 7,000 Indians were languishing at 11 such detention camps.
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