Some 118 Nepali workers, who reached Malaysia through a manpower agency in Kathmandu, are working as bonded labourers, newspaper reports said.According to the Kathmandu Post daily, some agents of NB International Manpower Agency situated in Kuleshwore, Balkhu in Kathmandu had sent them there.
The agents had already received 5,318 Rials from the company in advance to send the Nepali workers there.
When the Nepali youths asked for their wages, the company showed a receipt as evidence confirming that the agents had received their salary in advance. “Only then did we come to know that we had been cheated by Nepali agents,” the paper quoted a letter written by the victims as saying.
The agents had assured the workers that they would earn between 751 to 1,000 Rials in a month. They had paid the Nepali agents Rs. 20,000 to Rs. 93,000 per head to get the foreign jobs. They reached Malaysia on 19th December 2006.
In their letter, the victims said the company was providing them just 20 to 50 Rials a month, adding, “They have to arrange extra money on their own even for treatment.”
Some of the Nepali workers being exploited in Malaysia have been identified as Tika Ram Chimuriya, Keshav Rayamajhi and Bhim Bahadur Bhattarai from Dangraha-9 of Morang district. The others are from Taplejung, Rupandehi, Palpa, Kavre, Makwanpur, Gulmi and Sankhuwasabha districts.
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