Kathmandu, May 6 -- The Nepal government has started registering its migrant workers who want to return home in West Asia and Malaysia, and planning for their transport and quarantine. But there are many Nepalis who have also decided not to go back, despite the uncertainties.
Nepal embassies in the UAE and Qatar registering migrant workers intending to go home, while the embassy in Kuwait has completed the paperwork of thousands of undocumented workers who want to take up the government's offer of amnesty and free flights home.
However, only half the 7,000 undocumented Nepalis in Kuwait want to return despite the risk of punishment. Similar amnesty programs in the past have failed to attract many undocumented workers in the Gulf and Mala...