Government to provide 1 million rupees to Kabul victim families

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Jun 23, 2016 - The government is making arrangements to provide more than one million rupees to each family members of the Kabul assault which took place in june 20.
Minister of Labor, Dipak Bohora told Nepalinewsxpress the Foreign Employment Promotion Board will take the ncecessary actions to distribute the compensation.
We handed over the bodies of the dead Nepali workers to their families as quickly as we could. In the similar way we will hand over remuneration to the deprived families, Bohora said.
The members will be provided Rs 5 lakh insurance and Rs 3 lakh from Foreign Employment Welfare Board and Rs 2 lakh will be provided from the Government of Nepal. Despite the fact that these workers went to Afghanistan illegally the deprived families will get one million rupees each, Bohora added.
For this, the FEPB will need to take decision and the Council of Minister will need to endorse the same. Existing guidelines don't permit FEPB to remunerate families of illegal Nepali migrants killed abroad.
FEPB had notified before that Ankur Tamang, who was among the 12 casualties had entered Kabul illegally. Minister Bohora said the government can't reject remuneration to dispossessed families on philantropic grounds.
12 Nepali security gurads were killed on the spot on june 20 when they were going to their work. they were working at the Canadian Embassay as security guards. The Taliban has taken the authority of the suicide bomb attack.
Of the seven Nepali guards injured in the assault, one died in the course of treatment on wednesday. While other five injured are undergoing treatment in India and other one injured Nepali guard is under treatment at the hospital in Afghanistan.
Minister Bohora told Nepalinewsxpress the government will make necessary plans to bring back those workers who feel risky in Afghanistan and want to return home. We are talking about the matter and will arrange for the initial repatriation, he said. Beside the 12 guards killed in the addault, Nepal Airlines chartered plane had brought home 24 other Nepali workers from Afghanistan on Wednesday