INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
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.
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