Nearly 5,000 Nepali workers apply to return home on government support

Nepali missions abroad are verifying applicants’ status before recommending their names to the government to provide them airfare from Migrant Workers Welfare Fund.

Nearly 5,000 Nepali migrant workers have reached out to foreign missions in major labour destination countries to return home on state expenses after the government came up with a plan to repatriate stranded citizens using money from the Migrant Workers’ Welfare Fund.