Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Feb 14: The state administration is working to ensure the safe return of at least 36 migrant workers from Jharkhand who have been stranded in Tajikistan for the past two months, an official said.
The workers claimed that the business hiring them to build power transmission lines had taken their passports, was giving them little to eat, and had given them no money at all, according to social worker Sikandar Ali, who alerted the authorities to the situation.
According to him, they had travelled to the country of Central Asia on December 19 of the previous year after being promised a good salary by the company’s agents in India.
The workers are from the Hazaribag, Bokaro, and Giridih districts. The relatives of the trapped workers have complained to Hazaribag Deputy Commissioner Nancy Sahay, according to PTI, claiming they were made to live a life akin to bonded labourers.
“On basis of the complaints, I have informed the State Migrant Cell to take up the issue with the authorities concerned, and find avenues for the release and safe return of the labourers to their native places as early as possible,” said Sahay.
