Kathmandu, May 12 -- A total of 469 Nepali migrant workers have been stranded in Saudi Arabia for the past eight months after Sendan International Company, the firm they had been working for, went bankrupt.

According to the Nepali Embassy in Riyadh, the workers were employed at various sites under Saudi oil and gas giant Aramco in Jubail. They have not received salaries for durations ranging from four months to one year. Many of the workers had been with the company for between two and sixteen years, but have yet to receive their end-of-service benefits.

The embassy said that the company officially ceased operations on December 24. Before shutting down, the company paid unskilled workers a minimum monthly wage of 1,300 riyals.

Ram Pras...