DOHA: The Qatar government has decided to increase minimum wage of a migrant worker.

A company in Qatar has to provide 500 Riyals for residential allowance and 300 Riyals for food allowance to a migrant worker as per the decision.

With the new remuneration adjustment, the minimum salary of a migrant worker will be 1,800 Riyals (including residential and food allowances).

Earlier, the minimum salary of a migrant worker had been fixed at 1,200 Riyals that included 300 as food allowances.

However, most of the companies in Qatar had been giving only 750 to 800 Riyals to a migrant worker.

Around 350,000 Nepali migrant workers have been working in Qatar.