In the financial year 2081/82, 5,632 cases of foreign employment fraud were registered in the Foreign Employment Department. But only 672 cases were resolved. In other words, only 11.93 percent of the cases were settled.
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Always Kalangmalyang and a crowd of sad and desperate customers. In the courtyard of the Foreign Employment Department located in Tahchal, there are always many representative characters who have been cheated in foreign employment, who have returned after reaching the destination country with many hunders and stumbles.
One of them was a woman from Kaski. Two years ago, after being assured that she would be sent to Greece, she paid 35 lakh rupees to Himal Gurung of Gorkha. But after not getting a job and not getting money even after asking several times, she filed a complaint with the Foreign Employment Department. She filed a complaint on May 28. Meanwhile, she came to Kathmandu several times from Kaski. But she has not got justice.
Dang's Santosh Bhandari also has a similar story. It was a year and a half ago. After Ajay Nepali of the village said that he would send it to Poland, he paid 500,000. But neither work, nor money back . Then he came to Kathmandu from Dang on February 1 and complained to the department. In the meantime, he rushed to Kathmandu four times to see where the complaint had reached and how close the justice was. He said, 'For justice, 50,000 was spent in Kathmandu.' He had previously complained to the district administration office to collect the cheated money and he was forced to go to Kathmandu after Ajay agreed to pay the money and did not give the money.
These two representative examples not only show how widespread the fraud in the name of foreign employment is, the victims of fraud are forced to run to the federal capital Kathmandu to get justice. Suryadev Yadav, 58 years old from Dhanusha, was another one of those who came to Kathmandu seeking justice. After his son Awadhesh, who had gone to Dubai for foreign employment, got stranded there, he arrived in Kathmandu on Tuesday to take action against the mainpower company that sent his son and to seek a loan while he was there to collect the 1.5 lakh rupees.
'My son is in trouble because he can't eat and sleep,' he said, 'I came to see if my son, who was sent on loan, can be brought back through diplomatic initiatives.' He came to Kathmandu for his son's rescue and justice, and he is staying at Pashupati's Dharamshala and is running the department every day.
Foreign employment department is the only government body that hears frauds in foreign employment, so the victims are forced to run to Kathmandu from every corner of the country . This department, which was established on December 16, 2065, as a separate department to deal with cases related to foreign employment, is still centralized even though the country has gone to a federal structure.
35,000 more complaints, fraud is slow
Foreign employment department registers an average of 15 new cases of foreign employment fraud every day. Due to the accumulation of cases that have not been pending for years, the department has become full of cases. According to Bhimsen Kafle, director of investigation and case branch of the
department, in the financial year 2080/81, the department 2 thousand 995 complaints were registered. Of which a total of 267 The case was just settled. In other words, only 8.91 percent of cases were resolved. In the financial year 2081/82, the number of cases registered increased to 5,632. But only 672 cases were resolved. In other words, only 11.93 percent of the cases were resolved .
Why is the attrition rate so low? Kafle, Director of Investigation and Case Division, has a clear answer, 'How much work can be done with one director and five investigation officers?' According to Kafle, more than 35,000 cases are yet to be disposed of. He said, "Since we have less staff in the case branch, we have not been able to work properly." Kamal Prasad Bhattarai, director general of
department, said that they are trying to do something in manpower management. "Manpower working in the issue branch and working in other branches have different abilities," he said. According to the department It was complained that 10 billion 308 million 82 thousand 690 rupees were defrauded in 5 thousand 632 cases filed in the last financial year. In which the department has been able to return only 328.7 million 37 thousand 465 rupees to the victims. This means that only 3.1 percent of the total amount has been collected.
Legal suggestion for investigation by local police
In order to end the increasing number of complaints in the department and to end the compulsion of citizens from all over the country to come to Kathmandu, a proposal has also been submitted to improve the policy of investigating fraud related to foreign employment by the local police. This proposal was made by a 5-member working group headed by Deputy Director General of the Foreign Employment Department Chandra Bahadur Sivakoti, who was formed to identify the problems in the service delivery of the case and investigation branch under the Department of Foreign Employment and submit opinions/suggestions with current and short-term solutions.
The case related to personal fraud being investigated by the Department of Foreign Employment is similar in nature to the offense of Section 249 of the Civil Crimes Code, 2074, so the committee suggests that a proposal should be submitted for amendment to Section 63 of the Foreign Employment Act, 2064 to be investigated and prosecuted under Schedule 1 of the Civil Criminal Procedure Code 2074 .
'The first thing is not with the manpower department like with the police . That's why it looks more effective when the police investigate it," Director General Bhattarai said, "Coming to Kathmandu for justice from different parts of the country is also expensive and uncomfortable. Therefore, it is better if the investigation and investigation is done by the district police office. People get justice easily. According to
Bhattarai, even now local police are needed in everything from arresting people, so this provision in the law is very necessary for convenience. In addition, the committee has identified the problems related to the complaints registered in the Foreign Employment Department and has given suggestions for immediate improvements, policy improvements, administrative and long-term improvements.
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