Migrant workers would return home with money and gifts. Now it is just themselves
Kathmandu, Sept. 20 -- For months Bikash Khatri had been telling his employer he wanted to return home. On Saturday he left Kuala Lumpur with a ticket his employer bought him. And with a negative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test his employer paid for.
But he is not excited he will be home soon. He is coming back empty-handed.
"There was no work nor much income, so I thought of returning home," Khatri told the Post from Kuala Lumpur International Airport before boarding his flight to Kathmandu on Saturday morning.
Khatri, who worked at a restaurant since 2014, has been sent home since business was affected in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.
All he had with him was Malaysian Ringgit (RM) 100, equivalent to Rs2,850. With this he h...
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