Shankar Finally Returrns to Nepal Due to CeLRRd’s Effort
October 10, 2014
In the case of Naini Das Damai of Chadani VDC-2, an agent named Dayaram Tamata of Mahakali Overseas Company cheated him saying that he would send him to Malaysia in sewing job, when in fact he sent him to comparatively less earning carpenter’s job. When he refused to go, Dayaram threatened to pay back his money invested in visa processing, otherwise he would not return his passport. He then lodged a complaint in CDO office, which then referred it to counseling desk, which then mediated the case. Dayaram committed to return the passport within two weeks. Naini Das expressed that when he made his passport some years back, there was no such counseling center. If such information center was there, he would not have been cheated like this and bear unnecessary suffering
Sabitri Rijal subedi, Shreepur-5, aged 28 returned from Saudi Arabia after working one year as a house maid. I was promised of 25-30 thousand per month salary by a manpower company which then cheated her giving just eight thousands only. She said that she even faced attempts of sexual exploitation. “If this sort of counseling and information center was available at that time, I would not have been suffered that much. Now, I am preparing to go to Malaysia, and I have gathered enough information from this center. I have promised that I will not go until I feel secured with required information.”
In the case of Shankhar Chhetri (resident of Ramnagar -1 Chitwan) who had gone missing for the last four years while on foreign employment in Malaysia, CeLRRd had been able to trace about his whereabouts after his wife, Maya Kumari Chhetri came to receive safe labour migration counseling at the counseling desk in Chitwan DAO. Worried of the increasing family debts after her husband went missing in the foreign land, she in fact encountered the desk, as she came to make for her MRP. As the counselor informed of the possible hardships in foreign employment, she started crying and shared her story. CeLRRd facilitated her way from registering the case at Foreign Employment Promotion Board, building contacts with Department of Councilor, Tripureswor Kathmandu, and Nepalese Embassy in Qualalampur and with Labour Attache’ Amalkiran Dhakal to find her husband. After some days, her husband phoned from the Kajang Jail in Malaysia and informed of his problem. Initially as he did not receive the promised salary in the company he joined initially, he left the job, and started working illegally in the other company as a security guard. Then one day, there was a theft in the office he was responsible for, and while in investigation, he was found reckless and most of all document-less. Since then he was imprisoned and charged with 150,000 ringgit. Through the diplomatic means pushed through CeLRRd’s efforts, he was excused and could come to Nepal on 29 August 2013. Now, they own a small hotel in Ramnagar, and are planning to build a pig farm within few months. The family’s happiness knew no bounds after the breadwinner returned to them after so many years of hard life. The case reflects how unsafe labour migration costs the lives of so many people.
