Entitlements worth 5.5 million rupees recovered

Galkot (Baglung): Chet Bahadur Thapa, a resident of Kathekhola Rural Municipality-7 here, died during foreign employment in Saudi Arabia in 2015.

However, his dependent family did not receive any compensation or relief support for 10 years.

But thanks to the Migration Resource Center, Thapa’s family finally received some relief money 10 years after losing their loved one in course of foreign employment.

Accordingly, the Center has been working to providing necessary support for treatment, retrieval of bodies, compensation and psychological counseling to the families of those who have gone for foreign employment.

The Center has resolved 58 complaints out of 128 foreign employment-related complaints registered before it in the past one year, said Ganga Sharma, the Center’s information officer and counsellor.

In the process, entitlement worth Rs. 5.515 million was recovered and provided to the concerned migrant worker or family.

Similarly, in a year, the bodies of 10 migrant workers who died during work abroad have been brought back to their families. The families have received Rs 6.7 million in relief money, Sharma said.

Migrant Resource Center Baglung Chief Min Upadhyay said that as the number of people going for foreign employment is increasing the number of incidents such as fraud, dismemberment, death, and imprisonment has also increased.

He said that out of the 15 complaints registered, including work, salary, company difference, and passport confiscation, 10 problems have been resolved.

Another Rs 2.13 million received from the Consular Services Department at the initiative of the District Administration Office has been handed over to victims related to foreign employment.