BAGLUNG: Chet Bahadur Thapa, a resident of Kathekhola Rural Municipality–7, died while working in Saudi Arabia in 2015. For a decade, his family received no compensation or relief support.
However, thanks to the efforts of the Migration Resource Center, his family finally received relief support 10 years after his death.
The Center has been actively providing assistance related to medical treatment, repatriation of deceased workers’ bodies, compensation claims, and psychological counseling for families of Nepali migrant workers.
According to Ganga Sharma, information officer and counselor at the Center, 58 of the 128 foreign employment-related complaints registered in the past year have been resolved. Through these efforts, entitlements worth Rs 5.515 million have been recovered and handed over to affected migrant workers or their families.
In the same period, the bodies of 10 migrant workers who died while working abroad have been brought back to their families, who received a total of Rs 6.7 million in relief payments.
Min Upadhyay, chief of the Migration Resource Center in Baglung, said that with the increasing number of Nepalis going for foreign employment, incidents involving fraud, injury, death, and imprisonment have also risen. Of the 15 complaints registered in the past year — including issues related to employment conditions, unpaid wages, company changes, and passport confiscation — 10 have been resolved so far.
Additionally, Rs 2.13 million received from the Department of Consular Services, through the initiative of the District Administration Office, has been handed over to victims and families affected by foreign employment-related issues.
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