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Saudi Arabian company expels 29 Nepalis after their protest against no pay

Riyadh city in Saudi Arabia

Khotang, July 18

Total Nepali youth including 14 from Khotang district, who had gone to Saudi Arabia for work, have been stranded there.

They had gone to the Gulf country on February 13 but have been left in the lurch as they have neither got the work nor the pay as per the contract documents.

It is said they got only 900 Saudi Riyals since they started work. But their employer company expelled them after they refused to go to work one day.

Among the expelled youth, 14 are from Khotang district, said Bunadevi Bishwokarma, the assistant counsellor at the Safer Migration Project (Sami)’s information centre in Diktel.

According to Bishwokarma, among the stranded Nepalis in Saudi Arabia, three are from Sindhuli district, two each from Sarlahi, Makawanpur and Dailekh districts and one each from Bhojpur, Ramechhap, Dadeldhura and Kailali districts.

They went there through the Empower Overseas, a recruiting agency based at Mitra Park, Chabahil in Kathmandu. According to their contract, they had been sent to work at Sonmar Constructing Trading Advertising and Advertising Company.

“The company expelled the Nepali workers on Monday when they refused to go to work in protest against the no pay. The company threw our bags and belongings out on the road,” Bishwokarma quoted Sheshan Shrestha of Jalpa, one of the victims, as telling her on the phone.

The expelled youth have urged the information centre and other related bodies to take initiatives for their immediate rescue.

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