Overview

• Unregulated travel agents in Punjab lure young migrants with flashy job ads, charging between ₹20 lakh and ₹50 lakh and saddling families with lifelong debt.
• Promises of high-paying Western jobs often end with abandonment in transit countries and detention of Punjabi youths in Mexico, Panama and other Latin American nations.
• The association has urged Indian authorities and the Protector of Emigrants to vet all foreign job advertisements and enforce strict agent licensing requirements.
• It proposes a cross-jurisdictional digital tracking platform and a unified national and international database to monitor irregular recruitment networks.
• NAPA calls on destination governments to recognize stranded migrants as victims, strengthen cooperative anti-trafficking measures and educate vulnerable communities in Punjab.