What a disheartening news!
What a disheartening news!
I was wondering if the family
members back home of any Nepali migrant workers, who died in foreign lands while
serving in the international organizations, had received any compensation or not in
accordance with the signed contract. I am also not so sure who, in Nepal, is responsible
to ensure that their family received the actual amount of compensation. Is it the concerned manpower agency or the
government’s concerned organization?
I was shocked to read a news
report published in today’s (August 31, 2020) The Kathmandu Post about the
international agencies not paying the proper amount of compensation to the
victim’s family or even not at all.
Are our embassies given responsibilities
to look after such issues and lawfully ask the concerned agencies to pay full
compensation amount to the victim’s family back home? If not, looking at
Dhan Kumari’s case, who lost her only the bread earner husband in a Taliban suicide
bomb attack in September 2019 in Afghanisthan, it seems urgent that Nepal
government should authorize its embassies to help victim’s family to receive the
actual compensation amount. She was paid
only lump-sum insurance payment equivalent to four years of Chandra’s salary, But
official documents and other evidence show that Dhan Kumari is legally entitled
to much more—equivalent to around 20 years’ of her deceased husband’s salary.
Was it because the author Peter Gill decided to give title to his article as:
‘Cheap’ Nepali deaths in US war zones
https://kathmandupost.com/national/2020/08/31/cheap-nepali-deaths-in-us-war-zones
