Within four years, 4700 workers were killed in foreign employment, only 22 percent were compensated
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The government has not been able to provide compensation from the destination country to the families of all the Nepali workers who died in foreign employment. The government has not been able to advance labor diplomacy strongly with the destination country to compensate the relatives of the deceased.
Destination countries have been compensating only workers who died in workplace and road accidents . Nepal has not been able to pressurize workers to include them within the 24-hour insurance program to provide proper compensation for workers who die outside the workplace .
According to the data of Foreign Employment Board, 4 thousand 729 people died from 2077/078 to the middle of February 2080/081. 1212 people died in 2077/078, 1395 people in 078/079, 1208 people in 079/080 and 694 people died by the end of February of the current year.
The relatives of all the workers who die in that way do not get compensation according to the law of the destination country. Most of those workers die from heart attacks. According to the Nepalese embassies, workers are also dying due to the climate of the respective countries. Apart from that, according to the Auditor General's report, there are deaths, amputations and illnesses due to work pressure, alcohol consumption, quarrels among workers, family stress, technical errors in the operation of machinery tools, traffic accidents, illness, workplace accidents, burns, suffocation, drowning and covid-19. mentioned .
Mahalekha studied the deaths of 1,208 people in the last fiscal year, the highest in Malaysia at 27.96 percent, Saudi Arabia at 26.36 percent, United Arab Emirates at 17.98 percent, Qatar at 17.23 percent, Kuwait at 6.04 percent and others. 4.43 percent in the country.
Malaysia will provide monthly assistance to dependent families of workers who died at work. The Gulf countries have given 200,000 riyals as compensation to the victims of workplace and road accidents. Relatives of workers who receive such compensation are very few . In the last fiscal year, the family of 645 people received 826 million 6493 thousand from the employer company and insurance company of the destination country. That amount was sent to the district district administration office by the Nepali embassy through the consular department so that the dependent family would get it.
Former Ambassador to Qatar Suryanath Mishra says that the state will not provide the budget for legal aid to compensate the families of the deceased. Some companies are honest. In case of the death of the worker, they bring the money they get according to the rules and hand it over to the embassy. However, such companies are very few", said Mishra, "which companies do not provide workers' insurance. They should be prosecuted. In this way, the embassy should hire a lawyer to settle the case. The government does not provide a separate amount for lawyers . If the family of the deceased wins the case, the embassy hires a lawyer to pay a certain percentage of the compensation amount. In
Gulf, the embassies have assigned lawyers to pay 10 to 15 percent of the compensation. Ex-ambassador Mishra did not provide 24-hour workers' insurance, and the families of the deceased workers have been deprived of compensation. All the destination countries only provide eight hours of labor insurance. Which is wrong', he said, 'After the worker reaches the company, he should be taken over within 24 hours . Go and live in the company's camp. Duty will go from there . After working, he will come back to the company's camp and stay. In this way, the employer has to provide 24-hour insurance. The government is paying for such work . It has been a decade since this topic was raised.'
is a self-collected welfare fund for the welfare of workers. Due to this, financial assistance has been available to the families of the deceased. This is also only for the workers who have taken the labor permit . Rs 43 crore 57 lakh has been provided as compensation to the families of 694 workers during the year.
Udayraj Pandey, the former ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Malaysia, has emphasized that the government should allocate funds for legal battles to give proper compensation to the deceased workers. There is no agreement with the main destination countries of the Gulf, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Oman. The agreements made are also not effective,' he said, 'Initiatives should be taken with the destination country to compensate those who died in places other than the workplace.'
According to the report of the General Account The death of a citizen who has gone to the destination country for labor after medical examination from the country cannot be considered natural. Some workers engaged in foreign employment have lost their lives in road accidents due to the lack of knowledge of the laws of the respective countries. Problems such as having to go to jail due to doing illegal work, being unable to work due to lack of knowledge about the country's climate and environment and having to return home have been seen. According to the report, effective orientation training should be conducted based on collecting the details of the problems faced by the workers.
