One thousand child workers stranded in India: Report

As Nepal is celebrating the ‘International Child Rights Day’ on Sunday, an official Nepali news agency has reported that nearly one thousand Nepali child workers are stranded in Pithauragadh of India for the last four months.

The children who were working in Pithauragadh of India are stranded there as the contractors did not pay them for their work. The children were compelled to go to India due to flaring conflict of the country and are between 13 to 15 years, reports said.

The contractor gave them only IC 30 per day after they started work despite earlier assurance of IC 130 per day. However they were compelled to work there as they did not have fare to return home.

Report quoted Son Bahadur Chaudhari as saying that they were even not getting proper food after hard work all day.

“We left the home due to the fear that Maoists will force us to join the party, but now we did not have money to return home,” he added.

Nearly one thousand child workers were forced to work there without proper food and sanitation. nepalnews.com pb Nov 20 05