Kathmandu, July 1 -- The government has finalised the guidelines for repatriating the Nepali migrant workers stranded overseas amid Covid-19 pandemic.

Two weeks earlier, the Supreme Court had issued an interim order directing the government to bring home the stranded workers at its own expenses. The court had issued the order in response to a petition against the government's inaction to repatriate the Nepali citizens who were languishing in foreign countries without jobs and money to return home. As per the repatriation guidelines, the government will bear all the cost of bringing home the Nepali workers who had gone on foreign employment and rendered jobless within a year due to the pandemic.

The government will pay for the return tic...