Kathmandu, Dec 15: Now the families and kin of those who have died in course of foreign employment need not travel to Kathmandu to apply for compensation.
The government will soon make arrangements for online application for compensation and people need not come to Kathmandu to apply for compensation.
Director General of the Consular Department, Gehendra Raj Bhandari shared this at an interaction on ‘issues of migrant workers abroad’ here Wednesday. The interaction was jointly organised by the Pravasi Nepali Coordination Committee and the Safe Migration Project in the context of the International Migrants Day.
Once the online application system is put in place, the kin and family members of people who have died in course of foreign employment would be able to apply for compensation from their place of residence and they would not have to come to the capital for that purpose, Bhandari said.
He also said the Department would arrange for international phone service to the victims in case of problem abroad. The Department itself would make arrangements for phone service at the Nepali embassies and at the company itself so that it would be easy to rescue the victims or to claim compensation.
Family members of the migrant workers from Jhapa and Siraha who were killed in course of foreign employment shared in the interaction that they have not got the compensation yet and had to face many difficulties travelling to Kathmandu to apply for the compensation.
Committee president Kul Prasad Karki and Rony Pradhan of the Project stressed on the need of conducting orientation programmes for reducing fatalities among the migrant workers overseas.
A report presented by the Committee in the programme states that most fatalities among the Nepali migrant workers abroad in 2016 was due to natural causes followed by suicide, accidents at the workplace and traffic accidents in that order. RSS
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