The Independent Transport- Workers’ Association of Nepal has provided 1 lakh 10 thousand 1 hundred and 5 rupees to the family of the driver Meghnath B.K., 

who died after getting hit by rocks in a landslide on the night of 12th July.
At a place called 17 Kilo of Bharatpur Metropolitan City, Chitwan, on the night of July 12, B.K., who was seriously injured by a rock during the landslide, drove the bus about 50 metres ahead and saved the passengers.

At 17 Kilo of Bharatpur Metropolitan City, on the night of July 12, B.K., after getting seriously injured by a rock fall during the landslide, drove the bus about 50 metres ahead and saved the passengers.

According to ITWAN, preparations are being made to give national honour to B.K., who died during treatment.
 

The government has been heavily criticised after its decision to send 2,000 caregiver workers to the conflict-torn country of Israel. 

In a recent meeting between the Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Security Sharat Singh Bhandari and the Israeli Ambassador to Nepal Hanan Goder Goldberger, an agreement was reached to increase the number of Nepali caregivers.

The government opened applications for 800 people last June, but after the formation of the new government, it has been agreed that this number may be increased to 2,000. GEFONT has drawn serious attention to this agreement. 

It has also requested to immediately withdraw the decision to send its citizens to war-torn areas in the name of foreign labour. Bipin Joshi, a Nepalese citizen who went missing in the Israel-Palestine conflict, has not been found yet.
 

The GEFONT family has been deeply saddened by the death of 18 technicians and crew members in the plane crash of Saurya Airlines on the morning of July 24.

GEFONT offers its deepest condolences to all the people who died in the accident and deep condolences to the bereaved families and wishes for the speedy recovery of the injured Captain Manish Ratna Shakya.
 

Information has been received from Nepal Police that 250 women are smuggled daily from Tribhuvan International Airport to just the city of Dubai.

Due to Dubai only requiring hotel bookings and plane tickets to obtain a visit visa, traffickers are using this loophole to easily traffic people.

In the past, police clearance reports, 12th grade educational certificates and bank statements were mandatory to go to Dubai on a visit visa, for which one had to not only create fake documents but also arrange setting with the immigration staff.

However, human trafficking has become easier as there is no need for any of the mentioned documents. 

According to the information, Nepali women are being trafficked not only through Nepal’s airport, but also through the airports of India.

It has come to our knowledge that the trafficker is doing this by setting up a network in Nepal and Dubai.
 

The effects of the global economic recession after the covid epidemic have also started to be felt in Nepal. 

The Department of Labor and Occupational Safety has stated that the number of foreign workers coming here for employment has decreased.

Compared to the previous financial year, the number of foreigners who received work permits has decreased by 10 percent. In the F.Y. 2079/80, the number was 2,994, which has been reduced to 2,685 in the last fiscal year.

Among the citizens of 96 countries who have taken labour permits for employment in Nepal, Chinese citizens rank at first. 

There is a provision in the Labor Act that states that the establishments operating in Nepal can hire only 5 percent foreign workers.

Although the 2075 guideline for the labour permit system of foreign nationals provides that skilled manpower who are not available in Nepal can be imported and employed, it is found that even unskilled workers come to Nepal due to the arrangement of allowing foreign workers to be employed in the amount decided according to the agreements with various agencies of the Government of Nepal.
 

Furious transport workers blocked Satdobato intersection area on Sunday evening after driver Rajkumar Tiruwa of Lalitpur's Godawari-Lagankhel route was assaulted by traffic police assistant constable Rajesh Chaudhary and jawan Arjun Rai.

Assistant constable Rajesh Choudhary told the driver of Ba 2 Kha 2077, who was going to Godawari from Lagankhel with passengers, that he did not have the documents requested by the assistant constable Rajesh Chaudhary as the documents were at the traffic police office.

According to witnesses, the traffic police, who became infuriated, attacked the driver while on the driver’s seat and threw him to the ground, then kicked him with his boot and hit him hard enough that the steering wheel of the vehicle broke.

Independent Transport Workers’ Association of Nepal, Lalitpur District Committee and Godawari Route Unit Committee, protested against the unwarranted behaviour of the traffic police and blocked the road till 8PM by parking all the vehicles on the road and chanting against the traffic police.

Due to the unity demonstrated by the transport workers, a 4-point agreement was reached which included taking formal action against their assistant constable Chaudhary and jawan Rai, treating the driver and repairing the vehicle.