QATAR, July 22 - A manpower company, Destination Overseas, produced fraud documents to step up pressure on the Nepali Embassy here to send employees for underpaid work. The company requested the embassy over phone to send Yug Bahadur and Dik Bahadur Shrestha of Yaku-3 of Bhojpur for work in the guise of their father.
The Shrestha brothers along with one Om Prakash Kewat of Nawalparasi are taking refuge at the embassy now after they were paid 550 riyal monthly, which is lower than the labor agreement signed between the two countries. Furthermore, the company filed an application in the name of Yug's wife at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs asking to take initiatives to send them for work. It is learnt that the application was fraudulent.
"My wife cannot read and write. But the application bears her signature," Yug Bahadur claimed.
In connection with the application, a Counselor Officer at the ministry, Rajendra Pandey, issued order to the embassy to provide necessary help for the victims.
The victims said that they could not get the job the overseas company had promised in Nepal.
Nepali Ambassador Dr Surya Nath Mishra said the embassy had not signed any labor agreement below 600 riyal since last January. "We have no objection if they want to work," he said, adding, "But the embassy won't sign labor agreement below that amount."
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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