Relief provided to Indian workers stranded at 62 brick kilns

Kathmandu - The Bhaktapur Brick Kiln Entrepreneurs Association has distributed relief allowance to the Indian workers who are stranded due to the lockdown at 62 brick kilns in the districts.

A meeting of the Association on Friday decided to provide the weekly relief allowance to the Indian workers until the opening of the Nepal-India border with the lifting of the lockdown, Association president Natibhai Hyamba said. He said around 3,000 Indian workers are working at the brick kilns in Bhaktapur.

"The Association has decided to provide Rs 600 per person per week to them for food until arrangements are made for them to go home. Likewise, the brick kiln employing them will make arrangement for their accommodation, provision of drinking water, electricity and cooking gas," he added.

Hyamba said the Nepali workers have all left for their homes after the lockdown. He said the brick kilns in the district have send home around 22 thousand workers since April 2 after the closure of the brick kilns.