The construction company (contractor) and the main employer (contracting organization) are to blame for the workers not getting wages. The problem of the contractor investing the payment received from the contracting organization elsewhere and not paying has been seen in many projects across the country. In the same way, sometimes the final burden of the loss or other financial problems of the contractor falls on the workers.

The workers who have to earn to cover the morning and evening hours cannot stay away from home for a long time without getting wages. They are looking for a new job. Now they can't leave the new job and protest to the contractor for wages, and they will have to lose hope for wages. Another reason is that the sub-contractor or Nike invests the money they get for the workers' wages elsewhere and they don't have money at the time of payment. 

Apart from that, when there is a dispute between the contractors working in partnership on various issues including commission, when the payment is stopped by the subcontractor for not doing quality work, there is a problem in the payment of wages to the workers. They forget that regardless of what it looks like on the surface, the contractor is responsible for fulfilling the contract between the worker and the contractor, and the law also assigns this responsibility to the main employer. They consider it easy to make a victim of it. 

District Attorney Govind Upadhyay says, 'Section 64 of the Labor Act 074 states that employers (contractors) must hire workers through licensed labor suppliers, Section 65 states that if the labor suppliers and employers do not pay wages to the workers, the main employer (contracting organization) can bank Payment is drawn from the guarantee and section 66 stipulates that if the labor supplier is an unlicensed person or company, those workers will belong to the main employer (scheme contracting office), so the workers cannot be forgotten when paying for the scheme. Doing this is simply a collusion between the contractor and the office.'

According to the Public Procurement Act-2063 and Regulation-2064, the construction business does not have to submit the estimated wages of the workers when inviting tenders for the project. There is no 'Column' to regulate workers' wages or analyze prices within the framework of the Public Procurement Monitoring Office. In the agreements between the main employer and the construction company to complete the plan, there is no mention of the payment of workers' wages. 

Chief Engineer of Infrastructure Office Myagdi, Bishnu Paudel, said, "To solve the problem of frequent workers not getting wages, it is necessary to create a separate contract between the builders and the workers, mentioning the minimum wage and guaranteeing the payment." 

According to District Attorney Govinda Upadhyay, the rights of workers can be ensured by mandating a labor contract in the contract process, setting up a monitoring unit for the implementation of the Labor Act in the District Coordinating Committee to listen to complaints related to the non-payment of wages by the workers, and setting certain standards for the district court to hear labor cases. Suresh Dhakal, Head of Labor and Employment Office Pokhara, says that it is necessary to amend the Labor Act to ensure the rights of workers working in the construction sector and the informal sector.

It has been a year since the 35 workers involved in the construction of the Beni Hospital building returned without getting their wages. 18 laborers working in the Darbang-Vim rural road project were also forced to work for free. Construction companies made profits from many such projects that were built and built in Myagdi. The government has fulfilled the 'goal of development'. However, the ground workers working in the construction returned home hungry. 

Workers involved in the construction of Beni Hospital say, 'What kind of development are you trying to achieve by killing the poorest?' Filed a complaint at the office (Ziprka). 

ZIPRA on 26th August wrote a letter to the Intensive Urban and Building Project, Baglung to 'make necessary arrangements' with the workers' petition. The project sent a letter to the builder on 1 October 2080. After this letter, on 10 October 2080, the builder Ravin Joshi and the labor supplier (Nike) gave only 10,000 to the petitioner laborer Santveer Lama through representative Durga Karki. Returned to calculate the rest later. Santveer, in his own words, received Rs 10,000 for the car fare 'only after threatening to commit suicide'.

Unpaid workers could not afford to stay in the under-construction building (Magdi Hospital) starving during Dasain. After waiting for a few days, they returned home empty-handed. 

"We have started work here since June 7th, only I have to take 35,000," Santaveer Lama from Timal of Kavre, who was met in Pohor Asoj, said, "Everyone else returned home, an old man from Dang asked for the carriage fare from home." I am here without any travel expenses.' 

'There is no record of how many workers worked here,' Ashok Kunwar, the site engineer of the construction company, said, 'I heard that there was a dispute between the contractor, Nike and the workers According to the contract agreement dated 21 January 2073 from Urban Development and Building Construction Department Division Office, Baglung, the 50-bed Beni Hospital building should have been completed in three years. However, so far the physical progress of building construction is 80 percent and the financial progress is 73 percent. Mahadev Khimti/Galwa/Rafina Joint Venture (JV) in collaboration with Central President of Nepal Construction Professionals Federation Ravi Singh's Mahadev Khimti, Deputy Secretary General Narhari Thapalia's Galwa and Ravin Joshi's Rafina Constructions has concluded the contract for the construction of the building for 189 million. According to Shankarraj Koirala, an engineer of the intensive urban and building construction project who monitors the construction, the contract has been extended until the end of March. 

18 laborers working in the Darbang-Khara-Vim road upgradation project contracted by Malika Rural Municipality of Myagdi filed a complaint at the district administration office on 19 October 2080 after they did not receive the remaining 917,000 for their wages.

The administration office wrote to Malika Rural Municipality not to pay the amount as per the contract until AP Bulldogs Construction Pvt. The road construction contract was awarded to Bulldogs Construction Pvt Ltd by Divyajyoti Nana/Bulldox Construction Jovi.

Bipin Khadka, the owner of Bulldogs, who took charge of the road upgrade, went missing without completing the work. Meanwhile, the main contractor company Divyajyoti Nana appointed another businessman Narayan Ji as the official representative and completed the rest of the work. Even the rural municipality did not stop payment to the contractor. Instead, on October 21, 2080, he sent a letter to the contractor asking to pay the amount to the workers and gave it to Zipraka. Now, the calculation of the plan has changed without paying the wages to the workers. 

The workers came to say that they did not get their wages after the contractor left the job in the middle. We sent a letter and alerted them to pay," Beg Prasad Garbuja, President of Malika Rural Municipality, said, "After that, the contractor's representative came again, and the workers did not come back either. We thought that they would have received the wages and we paid them. Deepak Sapkota, an engineer from Malika Rural Municipality, who oversees the Darbang-Khara-Vim road, said that how, from where, and how much the contractor will pay for the labor, construction materials, etc., is not mentioned in the contract letter. He insisted that payment cannot be stopped when it is made. 

Regardless of what the government official or construction company says, in Section 66 of the Labor Act 2074, if the main employer (contracting organization) employs a person or company that does not have a license to supply labor according to the Labor Act or by supplying labor contrary to the provisions of the Act, such labor shall belong to the main employer. It has been arranged that it cannot be escaped as a contractor's person. 

However, this provision of the Act is being ignored by the organizations that make and implement projects and construction companies. In most of the construction projects in the country, the problem of workers not getting wages is acute. 

The labor office in Pokhara is the only body that listens to the complaints of workers working in construction and other sectors in Gandaki province. Pokhara only. There have been complaints from workers working in hotels, industries and some informal sectors in Pokhara and Tanahun, and workers working in hotels, industries and some informal sectors in Tanahun. Construction sector workers and remote workers do not have access to us," said Suresh Dhakal, head of the Labor and Employment Office Pokhara.  Not even a

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In the district administration office, Myagdi, 12 complaints have been registered regarding non-payment of wages by workers employed in various government schemes in the financial year 2080/81 alone. According to 6 of these complaints, 50 workers who worked in various projects did not get the 19 lakh 49 thousand they were supposed to get. The remaining four complaints were filed by the contractor 

They are related to non-payment of food in various shops and non-payment for renting two transport and construction equipment. 

"During the Corona period, when the contractors did not come in contact, hundreds of workers were starving without wages, local residents gave them food and the administration paid for the way and sent them home, now this is less," said Dhirendraraj Pant, information officer of the district administration office and assistant chief district officer. There will be a chain of payment process in the contract, if one of them is broken or crooked, the lowest level of workers will be affected the most.' 

In previous years, workers came with complaints about not getting wages, but records were not kept, he said. He said, "Since 2080/81, we have started recording such complaints in writing." However, the district administration office could not pay the workers who worked for the construction of Beni Hospital. Most of the complaints filed in the district administration office have been sent to the police office for 'necessary facilitation'. 

On the other hand, the number of complaints of workers who have not received wages from various schemes in District Police Office Myagdi is more. Out of the 18 payment related complaints registered at the police office in the year 2080/81, 14 are related to non-payment of wages by workers. In this complaint, the workers are yet to receive 71 lakh 47 thousand due for working in various construction companies. We have called some contractors and made them pay. After agreeing to pay the rest of the petitions, the workers have returned, since they did not return to say that they did not get the money, we believe that everyone must have received it," said Rajan Rayamazhi, Information Officer of the District Police Office. "Most of the complaints are from local workers. There are no complaints from workers who came from far away.'' Since the district police and district administration have only records of complaints filed in a year and among them only local workers' complaints are acted upon, it can be assumed that the number of cheated workers is much more than mentioned here.

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The purchase act, labor act or any other act has not specified the responsibility of the district administration office and the police to pay the wages of workers. All we have to do is to mediate," said Laxman Dhakal, the chief district officer of Myagdi (recently transferred to the Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration). "Because the law of the country is more for formality and less for implementation, workers in the construction and informal sectors have been subjected to injustice."&nbsp ;

According to the Public Procurement Act 2063 and Regulation 2064, there is a legal provision that firms with purchase contracts must be paid to a designated account, so the government office only pays the main contractor. 

"Goods" added by the first amendment of Section 2 of the Procurement Act shall mean any kind of movable or immovable (animate or inanimate) item and the term shall also refer to the service incidental to the supply of such item... The word 'labourer' is nowhere mentioned in the entire Public Procurement Act 2063 and Regulations 2064, except that. In Section 47 (1) d of Chapter 8 of the Local Government Operation Act 2074, the judicial committee formed at the local level is assigned the responsibility of looking at 'non-payment of wages'. In section 47 (2) of the Act, it is said - "A person who reconciles through reconciliation can freeze the account in the name of the defendant in a bank, company, financial institution or any body in a civil case filed as a plaintiff, and imprisoned for up to one year." 

However, the Labor Act 2074 stipulates that labor suppliers must obtain a license, employment contracts cannot be entered into without labor, and if the employer or labor supplier does not pay the wages of the workers, the main employer must pay with a bank guarantee. District Attorney Govinda of Myagdi 

Upadhyay says, "Now the big contractors have made a means of fighting against government. Officials to implement the law, officials have not been able to get justice. About Rs. 12 million demanded payments and dug up repeatedly demanding payment. Sharma / United States / United States had returned the movement by taking half wages at that time immediately arrested and warned the action. & Nbsp; It was not possible to search for Rukum, Salyan, the worker of Rukum, Salyan, Bahagat and Jajarko Jajarkot again to search for the remaining wages left at the wage rate. The administration also did not search for / not paying off more wages. Nepal Trade Union Federation (GEFONT) Magdi Bhadevi Rywal Rai Ryval Ratuwank said that he will bring workers from afar and compelled to return to a hunger stomach. 'It is anticipation of labor, "she says,' The silent body and political particle of the workplace is deported. '& Nbsp

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