Lifelong employment in India: Beatings and robberies on return home

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tired life Swollen feet. Breathing becomes difficult even when walking a little. 65-year-old Ram Prasad Acharya of Rasuwa's Uttargaya Rural Municipality was found in a similar situation at Gaddachouki checkpoint on Wednesday afternoon. The money he earned by doing wage labor in India was robbed. Due to the tension with the robbers, he was also beaten. He is also a respiratory patient.

Lifelong employment in India: Beatings and robberies on return home

Last Kartik, when he was returning home for Tihar, four/five youths beat him up and robbed him of his cash, clothes and mobile phone near Shimla. He said that only a single piece of clothing was left on the body. He said that at that time, they robbed him of 35,000 rupees, clothes and mobile phone.

'They were boys I knew, they used to come to my place of work,' said Acharya, who met him at Gaddachouki checkpoint on Wednesday, 'Due to the beating, he was left hungry for 4/5 days.'

He is from Simla, Himachal Pradesh He used to cook food for the workers in the nearby 'Ri' village. It had been 5 years since he came home. He was coming home for Tihar in Kartik. Before reaching Shimla Bus Park from 'Ri' village, the bus dropped him on the way. As soon as we got off the bus, 4/5 of the youth came. They suddenly started beating. He threatened that 'give me all the cash and goods or I will kill you'. Then he said that he gave everything he had.

After he was stranded due to looting, he reached Chandigarh after being helped by the Nepalese in Shimla. He also worked in a hotel in Chandigarh for treatment due to injuries from beatings. He used to get 10,000 baht per month. It would be good for treatment.

"I am sick with respiratory disease, it started tearing more and more," Acharya said, "I didn't have money to reach home, so I came with the owner to ask for money." That money reached Banabasa. In Gaddachouki, the Civilian Aid Cell established by the Sudurpaschim Province government helped him with the cost of reaching home. Dansingh Bohora, an employee of the Citizen's Aid Room, said that they have supported Acharya by spending 3,000 on the fare, food and snacks on the way home.

Acharya was in Himachal during the earthquake of 2072. The earthquake also destroyed his house. It took a loan of 7 lakhs to build that house. He came to build a house after the earthquake and went to the Himachal after three years. Everything was going well. The owner used to send expenses to the house every month. He was given food and accommodation. When he returned home after a long time, not only was he robbed of the money he had earned by working as a wage worker, but he was seriously injured due to the beating and now he is sick.