AWC urges government to save lives during pandemic

Kathmandu - The Accountability Watch Committee (AWC) has urged the government to save the lives of the needy, daily wage-earners and refugees during the lockdown it has announced to prevent the possible spread of coronavirus. In a press release on Tuesday, AWC coordinator Charan Prasai has appealed to the government to save the lives, through special relief programme, of workers working in daily wage basis at around six thousand brick kilns in Dhading as they are at risk of going hungry without work.

Likewise, AWC urged the government to make arrangements for the entry into Nepal of the Nepali citizens stranded at Dharchula border transit in India, for their health checkup, proper treatment with counselling, for the food and accommodation of those people who are in quarantine and for keeping their record. It has called for protecting the constitutional rights of these people to return to their home country.