Quake-hit families of migrant workers struggle for survival

Migrant workers from quake-affected areas in Jajarkot have not been able to return to India to earn money pushing them into dire financial straits.

Bhakta Bahadur BK, a migrant worker, leaves for India for work around this time of the year after celebrating Dashain with his family. This year he returned from India before Dashain and had planned to go back to work after the festivities. But the November 3 earthquake prevented him from making good on his plans. Since the earthquake destroyed his house in Chyuridar inward 4 of Nalgad Municipality in Jajarkot, he has been living with his eight-member family in a tent pitched in his field.