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A team of the International Relations and Labour Committee of Parliament, which returned home after conducting a field study in four Gulf countries, stated that “there is a nexus between human smugglers and employees of the DoI and that they work in cahoots to send Nepali women to various countries”.
The parliamentary team had left for Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates on March 18 to study the situation of Nepali workers in the Gulf countries.
“It’s a matter of grave concern that DoI employees have been working hand in glove with human smugglers,” said Prabhu Saha, chairman of the House committee who led a nine-member team to the Gulf countries. “The government will be strongly recommended to probe into the matter.
”Over 30,000 women from Nepal have reached Saudi Arabia illegally to work as domestic help and the number of women reaching other countries through the illegal channel operated in collusion of DoI employees and smugglers is equally high, the committee said.
Over 200 women are smuggled daily into different countries including Syria and Iraq where there is a ban on sending Nepalis to work. The government in May last year decided to allow Nepali women to work abroad as housemaids.
The decision said Nepali women aged 24 and above “will be able to take up jobs as domestic help in the Gulf and Malaysia with the help of selected recruiting agencies”.
The decision though paved the way for sending Nepali women to these countries to work as housemaids, “smuggling” of unsuspecting women into the Gulf and other countries has continued unabated.
