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Asha (name changed on request) was lucky enough to escape from the clutches of the family she was working as a domestic help in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, but there are hundreds who have not been lucky enough. Asha’s grim tale exposes the stark reality that young girls from Darjeeling and neighboring areas are being recruited by spurious employment agencies and are being sent abroad using fake Nepalese passports. Owing to the fake passports; in case of emergencies these girls find it very difficult to return back to India.

Asha who had been missing since August 2011 had been traced to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. She was rescued and brought back to India on December 21, 2011, with the Darjeeling Police, CID and the Ministry of Home Affairs taking up the case.

Asha stated that she had met a couple Mita Tamang and Chand Rai of Phuagari Tea Estate, Mirik through a friend Nikita from Panitanki on the Indo-Nepal border. The couple had offered her a job in Saudi Arabia for 800 Riyals a month (eleven thousand rupees approximately.) For a uneducated, unemployed tea garden girl from the economically weak strata, it was too lucrative an offer to resist.

20-year-old Asha hails from Salu Tea Estate, Marybong under the Jorebunglow Police Station, Darjeeling. Her husband is a taxi driver. “I did not tell my family members as I knew they would object to my plans. I left home and was flown to Delhi. In Delhi I was handed over a passport and flew to Riyadh” stated Asha.

Little did Asha know that the passport she was handed over was false Nepalese passport, (It bore her picture. The passport was of one Sova Biswakarma of Nepal. As Asha could not read she did not realise it.)

In Riyadh, Asha was kept in an office for some time, where she was threatened and beaten up also. Fromn there she was sent to a house as a domestic. “The house had 12 members and I had to do everything. I was beaten up, tortured nearly everyday. My passport was taken away. However after 2 months, I managed to escape and reached another household”, stated Asha.

In the second house though she was not tortured, the work was back breaking. The four storied house had 13 members. Asha had to do everything from cooking, cleaning to washing clothes, single handed. After a month Asha managed to escape and landed at the Nepal embassy. As she had no passport (passport taken away by the house owner) she even had to spend time at a Riyadh prison.

Back home Ajay Rai, Asha’s father had lodged an FIR at the Jorebunglow Police Station against Mita Tamang and Chand Rai. “On November 18, we arrested Tamang and Rai, booking them under Sections 363 (kidnapping) and 368 IPC ( wrongfully concealing or keeping in confinement kidnapped person.) The case is on and the duo are in judicial custody.” stated Sarita Pariyar, Circle Inspector, Darjeeling Sadar.

With the help of the CID, Ministry of Home Affairs and the Nepal Embassy in Riyadh, Asha was finally brought back home. She now lives with her family.

“I was told that Saudi Arabia is a beautiful place. They did not give me a single penny and each day was like a nightmare. No one should commit the mistake that I committed. I am lucky that I escaped. There are hundreds in the Nepal embassy who have faced torture and are awaiting a chance to return back. I even heard tales of death and forced suicide.” stated Asha. She now plans to complete a beauty parlour training and work near home.

As the Emigration Act of India clearly states that no recruitment agency is authorized to recruit any lady candidate for overseas recruitment; the spurious employment agencies are now targeting illiterate girls, recruiting them as domestics and sending them abroad using false Nepal passports ( the photographs are switched and the candidates are asked to memorize the name and address that features on the passport.)

“We have made sincere appeals that parents should inform the police before sending their children abroad through manpower agencies. It is our job to check the authenticity of the job and the credibility of the recruitment agencies. Despite repeated appeals not a single such information has been brought to our notice. Only after matters get out of hand, do they rush to the Police. As it usually involves foreign countries. investigations get complicated and time consuming at a mature stage and things become difficult.” stated the Circle Inspector.

Fake agencies recruiting Indian girls for overseas jobs - Hindustan Times
 
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That is exactly what Hindustanis are doing to Nepalis, in fact what they are doing is much worse, it is a sick business/crime.
 
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That is exactly what Hindustanis are doing to Nepalis, in fact what they are doing is much worse, it is a sick business/crime.

so what you are saying is that its a problem which is prevalent in the sub continent . it exists in Pakistan too.:)
 
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Its sad to hear stories like this and sure there are more and the govt needs to do more.
 
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so what you are saying is that its a problem which is prevalent in the sub continent . it exists in Pakistan too.:)

Nope... In Pakistan work permit visas are not issued to women... this women smuggling is only prevalent among countries like india,sri lanka,banglesh,nepal or maldives in the region...
 
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What happens to male laborers in Dubai is faaar faar worse
This is nothing compared to working all day overtime with no pay ATL ALL, with no passport, not much food, no toilets
 
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Nepal’s envoy blames Indian agents for misery of trafficked housemaids




By MD RASOOLDEEN | ARAB NEWS
Published: Dec 31, 2011 00:12 Updated: Dec 31, 2011 00:12

RIYADH: The Nepalese ambassador has blamed unscrupulous job agents in India for the problems of his country’s housemaids, who are sent to work in the Kingdom through illegal means.

“This is a big challenge we are facing with the Nepalese housemaids working here, who were trafficked into Saudi Arabia through illegal channels,” Ambassador Udaya Raj Pandey told Arab News on Friday.

The envoy was speaking to Arab News during a community function dubbed ‘Guru’ to mark the advent of the New Year. The event was spiced with cultural shows and provided a conducive platform for the Nepalese expatriates in the capital to meet and greet one another.

Pande explained that job agents from India go to Nepal and promise the women lucrative jobs in the Kingdom. They are brought to the Indian cities of Mumbai and Delhi for export for employment in households in Saudi Arabia, he added. Nepalese citizen do not require visas to enter India, he noted. These maids, he said, come to the Kingdom through these illegal channels and become victims of recruiting agents, who deploy the maids to various sponsors according to their whims and fancies.

“On investigation of a complaint made by a runaway housemaid for nonpayment of salaries for seven months, we found that the local agent had taken the money from the local sponsor in lieu of the maid’s hard work in the Kingdom,” Pande said. Another maid, Rita Pasi, 51, he said, was sent back by her sponsor to the agent in Riyadh, where she was raped and severely beaten by the money-minded agents.

The mission also detected another case of an Indian maid, Mina Rai, 31, who had come to the Kingdom on a fake Nepalese passport made by Indian agents, the envoy said.

In October this year the Nepalese government lifted a three-year ban on sending maidservants to Gulf countries. The ambassador said that during the ban, these agents exploited the situation for their benefit at the cost of innocent maidservants.

The envoy said there is an estimated 70,000 Nepalese housemaids living in the Kingdom and most of them had come through these traffickers. “I am getting two to three runaway maids a day, who came here through these unscrupulous agents in India. There is a large number of runaway maid servants, currently sheltered by the mission.

Besides these maids, he said, there are some 600,000 Nepalese male workers, who came through legal channels and are deployed in various sectors.

Ever since the ban was lifted, Pande said, his mission has been working on an ambitious plan to streamline the recruitment of maids from Nepal to Saudi Arabia. He explained that his government has stipulated a minimum monthly salary of SR800 plus SR200 for overtime work. He said the maidservants do not limit their work for eight hours. “We also want Saudi sponsors to offer maids air-conditioned rooms and provide them with insurance covers.”

The plan comes within the framework of an agreement with the Kingdom and other Gulf countries that will guarantee protection to the maids.

Addressing his countrymen at the function, the envoy urged his community members to comply with the local customs and conventions. “Please don’t run away from your workplaces,” the ambassador told the Nepalese male workers, requesting them to contact the mission for advice and guidance to resolve their problems.

Most of the labor problems generate due to misunderstandings between the employer and the employee, Pande said, adding that the embassy can negotiate such problems looking after the interests of both parties.

© 2010 Arab News
 
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