Baglung: Chet Bahadur Thapa, a resident of Kathekhola Rural Municipality-7, 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.
According to National News Agency Nepal, the Center has been working to provide 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 out of 128 foreign employment-related complaints registered in the past year, as stated by Ganga Sharma, the Center’s information officer and counselor. In this process, entitlements worth Rs. 5.515 million were recovered and provided to the concerned migrant worker or family.
Similarly, over the past year, the bodies of 10 migrant workers who died abroad have
been repatriated to their families. The families have received Rs. 6.7 million in relief money, Sharma added. Migrant Resource Center Baglung Chief Min Upadhyay noted that as the number of people going for foreign employment increases, incidents such as fraud, dismemberment, death, and imprisonment have also risen. Out of the 15 complaints registered, including issues related to work, salary, company differences, and passport confiscation, 10 problems have been resolved.
Furthermore, an additional Rs. 2.13 million received from the Consular Services Department, through the initiative of the District Administration Office, has been handed over to victims related to foreign employment.