Coffin economy

How do we account for the human cost of foreign labour that keeps the Nepali economy afloat?

When over a thousand Nepali labour migrants leave Tribhuvan International Airport each day, their dream is to return home after a gap of a few years to the warm hugs and happy tears of their family members. But that dream does not materialise for an average of three such Nepalis each day as they return home in coffins. That remains the sorry state of Nepal’s foreign labour migrancy with no end in sight as the government does little to bring a structural change to resolve the problem.