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petition has been submitted at the Supreme Court versus the & Order of the Government of Nepal, 2020 &, challenging the arrangement concerning repatriation of Nepali migrant workers from location countries at their own expense. The arrangement of the Order needing the migrant workers to pay of air travel and hotel quarantines are irregular with the Constitution and governing legislation of Nepal, mentioned Advocate Barun Ghimire. The provision in the Order (Paragraph 7(c) and 7(d)) regarding the cost of airfare and hotel quarantines for returnees from third countries and the expense of transport from holding centres to local quarantine centres for returnees from India to be borne by the returnees themselves contradicts with Area 75( 2) of the Foreign Work Act, 2004 on rescue and repatriation of migrant workers in a scenario of disaster and distress, and Sec 33( 1) on using the foreign employment well-being fund for the function of rescue and repatriation. The writ petition demands that the government bear the cost of rescue and repatriation of the disadvantaged and unemployed workers — -- who are not in a position to bear such expenditures themselves —-- including airfare and hotel quarantines. The writ application submitted by Supporters Barun Ghimire, Prabin Subedi, Anurag Devkota, and Binaya Rimal has actually been registered and arranged for a preliminary hearing on Sunday, June 7, 2020. The post Writ submitted at peak court demanding repatriation of Nepali migrant workers at govt expenditures appeared initially on The Himalayan Times.
