Scene 2: The same family is back at the airport, a trolley comes out of the arrival tunnel and where there must be suitcases and gifts and toys for the children, is a coffin, the coffin that holds the body of the same person who gave up his life in search of a better future.
The story above is not a movie plot or a fictional drama. It certainly sounds like it, but the lives of the nearly million migrant Nepali workers in different parts of the world are not any less of that of a fictional tale. Every day, thousands of Nepali youths fly from the TIA to different parts of the world, especially the Middle East countries in search of a better future. Their sole vision, work hard, earn money and sustain their families.
A recent revelation of the Foreign Employment Promotion Board reported an estimated 2.5 million workers in the Gulf and East Asian countries. The official death toll is 726. The death tolls are higher in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE and Bahrain with 205, 151, 47 and 15 deaths respectively in the past year alone. This obviously is only the official documented reports and there are undoubtedly many other incidents that have been suppressed or are not coming out because the workers were brought in with false identities. Very disturbing news came just a few days ago, when more than 44 Nepali workers died in accidents while building the football stadiums for the Qatar World Cup 2022. The deaths and the overall situation of the migrant workers, which some prefer to call the "modern day slavery" has certainly stunned the entire world and now human and labor rights activists are ready to fight against this cruelty.
Our country is one of the poorest in the world, yes, we have heard all about it. But only being poor is not that big a problem. The problem lies in the lowering expectation of the people towards the betterment of their lives in their own homeland. What can be more dreadful than the fact that a hard working, determined youth should abandon his land and go work like slave in someone else’s country. There are so many reasons that one can argue on this, and there are also different perspectives among the people. Many think the migrant workers can have a better life if they worked hard in their own land like they do in the boiling sands of the Gulf, while the others argue the lack of opportunities and security that leads them to go abroad where basically your life’s on a knife’s edge.
Whatever maybe the reason, when one country invites workers and the other country sends them, it’s the responsibility of the two countries to work out a mutual agreement over the rights and duties of the workers. This is where; perhaps the Nepalese government and especially the Nepalese embassy stationed in the Middle East have failed harshly. Every day, there are a dozen news of mishaps and exploits of Nepali migrant workers in the Middle East, and every time, the embassy officials seem to have a ready made answer “We have no information about it”. Is that what the entire embassy is about? Is the job of the embassy only to give out visas? Is bundling up a dead body and sending it back home the only responsibility of the officials? This is a question that needs to be answered, and answered soon.
How do you think can we solve this problem? What do you think will be the best way out? Put your views on comments!
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