NEW DELHI — Romania has announced plans to open an employment pathway for about 30,000 skilled Indian professionals each year, aligning with its growing labor market needs, according to a statement from India’s Commerce and Industry Ministry.
The announcement followed a meeting in Bucharest between Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Jitin Prasada and Romania’s Minister of Labour, Family, Youth, and Social Solidarity Petre-Florin Manole.
Both sides acknowledged Romania’s annual demand for approximately 100,000 non-EU workers and expressed readiness to facilitate the entry of around 30,000 Indian professionals annually. The initiative aims to match Romania’s sectoral workforce requirements while promoting safe and regulated migration.
The ministers reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening a long-term mobility partnership focused on orderly and responsible migration, enhancing labor market connectivity, and fostering mutual economic growth.
They also agreed to boost people-to-people ties through expanded cooperation in higher education, research, innovation, and cultural exchange programs—initiatives designed to support skill development and talent circulation.
The discussions further explored collaboration in recruitment systems, language and vocational training, standard employment contracts, employer obligations, and streamlined processing for verified employers. Officials from both countries were tasked with examining the mutual recognition of professional qualifications. Additionally, the two sides discussed the potential for a Totalisation (Social Security) Agreement to provide social security assurances for workers.
The meeting concluded with an agreement to sustain momentum by strengthening key areas such as skills mobility, business engagement, and institutional frameworks to ensure that the India–Romania partnership remains comprehensive and results-driven across trade, technology, and human capital development.
Prasada’s visit to Bucharest, made at the invitation of the Romanian government, coincides with the 19th meeting of the Joint Committee for Economic Cooperation (JCEC) between India and Romania.
Highlighting India’s demographic and economic strength, Prasada noted that with over one billion people of working age and a median age of 29, India is positioned to become the world’s third-largest economy by 2030. He emphasized that India, as a rapidly expanding hub for manufacturing and technology, accounts for nearly 45 percent of global capability centers and continues to invest heavily in frontier technologies.
He added that enhanced India–EU cooperation is more important than ever in the current geopolitical and geoeconomic landscape. (Source: IANS)
