Tatarstan labour ministry outlines prospects for cooperation with workers from India

Tatarstan's Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Protection Elmira Zaripova said cooperation with workers from India should be systematic and free of spontaneous labour migration. Speaking at the session “Labour market: problems and prospects” during the II Russian-Indian business forum “TIME” in Kazan, she said such workers are not temporary labour units but people with guarantees of workplace safety and decent pay.

Zaripova said foreign labour will not be admitted to regime enterprises or to highly skilled digital and engineering roles, where local training and national staffing sovereignty take priority. For automatable jobs such as cashiers, sellers and guards, she said the republic will retrain its own staff. She listed further steps: recruitment matched to employers' specific requests, monitoring of legal compliance, mandatory return at the end of contracts, closer ties between universities and enterprises, and harmonised recognition of qualifications in welding, engineering, medicine and IT. Requests collected by the ministry will be reviewed by a commission.

Zaripova described India as “not an accidental challenge but a strategic partner with demographic advantages, specialised qualifications, a flow of students and a growing institutional infrastructure.” She stressed that cooperation is built around protecting human rights, internal stability of the labour market and ensuring the country's personnel sovereignty.