In one year, 17 youths of Baglung lost their lives during foreign employment

After contacting the embassy through the immigration resource center, the body was taken out on February 3. But now the responsibility of paying the debt of Rajkumar going abroad and raising children by working has fallen on the shoulders of his wife Sushila . 10-year-old daughter and her younger son work as a laborer. A one-way jeep fare from home to the capital costs more than 700 rupees. Because of this, Pariyar had to suffer a lot to get accident insurance, relief and insurance money given by the Foreign Employment Board.

So far, she has received 21 lakh rupees as insurance and relief under the initiative of the resource center. There is still a lot of work to be done to get the additional funds to be received through the consular . As he could not run alone, the Center supported him. But with the work of running the household, Sushila has not been able to run for relief.

30-year-old Sudhan Bossel of Baglung Municipality-9, who went to Saudi Arabia for foreign employment to pay off the loan he built a house, fell ill while working in August last year. Friends took him to the hospital but could not save him . 12 days after the incident, Bossel's body arrived at the initiative of the Immigrant Resource Center of the Safe Migration Program (SAMI). On the initiative of the center, he was also given insurance amount of 21 lakh. Both of them went to work with work permits. Ganga Sharma Rizal, the consultant of the center said that it is difficult to provide the general relief amount to those who have not received approval. The Center took the initiative to bring the dead body of 34-year-old Rishi Ram Sharma of Kathekhola Rural Municipality-2 who died in Saudi Arabia on 10th October last. According to Rizal, only in the financial year 2080/081, Baglung's 17 The youth has died during foreign employment. Most of the deaths are in Saudi Arabia.

According to Rizal, in 080/081, a petition was registered at the center about the problems of 156 people who went to work abroad from Baglung, among them 137 men and 19 women. Out of 10 people who went missing after going abroad for employment, 6 people have been brought into contact with their families after being searched from the center. 4 people are still missing . "Although there is a delay in rescuing those who are stranded because they do not have documents, Rizal said, 'Embassy and the board are providing support for that.' Out of the 14 people who were in various incidents while they were abroad, 11 people have been rescued and 3 people are left Meen Prasad Upadhyay, the coordinator of Sami said.

As the number of deaths, injuries and hardships in foreign employment started to increase, the center has started asking every citizen to go only with a labor permit, leave a copy of the necessary document at home and provide a clear phone number of a family member at the time of making a passport . "The counseling room has been allocated in the district administration," said Upadhyay, "If you don't search in time, you will be in trouble and your life will be at risk." For that, the counselors contact abroad even at night.

On the initiative of the Center, the Foreign Employment Board cooperated in bringing the bodies of Prem Bahadur Damai of Nisikhola Rural Municipality-2 who died in Malaysia, Gokul Karki of the same place who died in Dubai, and 44-year-old Jeevan Thapa of Bareng Rural Municipality. In the previous financial year, the center took the initiative to bring the dead bodies of 7 youths, and last year brought the dead bodies of 17 people. The number of people going to foreign employment from Baglung is increasing every year.

There are 5,000 more people taking passports than taking citizenships from District Administration Office Baglung in one year. According to the data of the administration, in the financial year 2080/081, 8 thousand 411 people have obtained citizenship, while 13 thousand 59 people have obtained passports during the same period, Assistant Chief District Officer Chitrangat Baral said. During this period, 1 thousand 237 people have also made minor ID cards . Minors who make identity cards go to Europe and other countries, while most of those who make passports go to foreign jobs . The center does not keep the data of those who go outside the Gulf countries .