MoFA brings back 15 Nepalis stranded in th Gulf and malaysia

Kathmandu, Aug. 2: Sita Tamang of Panchakanya-4, Thaprek of Nuwakot district arrived in Kathmandu on Wednesday after going through great ordeal in Kuwait.

“I went to Kuwait in search of employment. My boss regularly used to beat me, and when I tried to escape, my leg was fractured. The Kuwaiti police arrested me from the hospital and remanded me in custody for 15 days,” said. “After that, my boss took me to his home, and I was condemned to endure the same fate.”

According to her, her boss sold her to other Kuwaiti citizens for labour.

She met the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Krishna Bahadur Mahara and thanked him for the government’s efforts to enable her to return home.

“Foreign countries do not have a favourable environment and legal provisions for female workers. Therefore, I don’t recommend any woman to go to the Gulf for employment,” she said.

Tamang is among the 15 Nepalis rescued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) after being stranded in different foreign countries.

The ministry said that it had also expedited the process to bring other helpless Nepali workers back home with the help of the Nepali missions in the respective countries.

Most of the Nepali workers were rescued from the Gulf countries and Malaysia.

The MoFA said that Sita’s son Hom Bahadur had demanded that the government take strict action against the manpower company and agent for tempting his mother, a single woman, to go for foreign employment with false promises.

Similarly, the ministry has rescued Ranjita Tamang of Panchthar from Oman, Shyam Kumar Bohara, Sher Bahadur Nepali and Rabindra Kumar Yadav from Malaysia, and Nar BahadurMagar from Qatar.

“Two Nepali workers, Ganga Ram Kunwar and Hari Khatri died while working in the fields in Qatar. A sum of 159,860 Qatari riyals have been provided to their family and kin as compensation,” said the MoFA.

DPM Mahara said that the government has become active to rescue Nepali workers in foreign land.

“I have formed a task force to identify the problem. After the task force submits its recommendations, the ministry will expedite the works to bring the helpless or illegal Nepali workers home from foreign countries,” he said.

He said that the government would provide equal treatment to every migrant Nepali worker even if they reached there illegally.

According to him, the MoFA will also initiate government to government dialogue and mobilise the Nepali Missions to resolve the issues of the Nepali workers.