Rs 5,000 for workers who lost passport in Libya

KATHMANDU, March 24: In what has come as a relief to workers who could not collect their passports during emergency evacuation from troubled Libya a few weeks ago, the Foreign Employment Promotion Board (FEPB) has decided to bear the cost for them to acquire new passports.



120 Nepali migrant workers had to be brought home issuing travel documents from Nepali embassy in Egypt as their passports were held by the companies they worked with. [break]



According to Executive Director of FEPB Sthaneshwor Devkota, the board has decided to provide Rs 5,000 each to the workers for acquiring new passport. A meeting of the FEPB held Thursday also decided to provide Rs 20,000 to Rs 40,000 each to nine Nepali workers who were disabled while working in Libya.



Among other things, the meeting has decided to ask Nepal Rastra Bank to exchange over 400,000 Libyan Dinar the Nepali workers brought back home with Nepali currency.

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