DHANKUTA, FEBRUARY 15

A family in Dhankuta has sought government help to find the whereabouts of their son who has been out of contact for years now.

Thirty-seven-year-old Harka Bahadur Rai of Bhirgaun, Ward 2 of Dhankuta Municipality, had reached Malaysia nine years ago.

Though he was in contact with his family for about one-and-a-half-years after he left home, his family hasn't heard anything from him since then.

Today, Harka Bahadur's 62-year-old mother Suchimma Rai, carrying her 10-year-old grandchild, reached the district headquarters seeking help to find her son.

Besides meeting journalists, she also visited Migration Source Centre under Dhankuta Municipality seeking help to find her missing son According to the centre's Information Officer Manju Rai, they have sent related documents to the Foreign Employment Board for necessary action.

'We've identified the manpower company that had flown him (Harka Bahadur) abroad and also the company he joined in Malaysia. Now that we have sent his documents to the employment board, the board will coordinate with Nepal's embassy in Malaysia and in a few days we will learn about his status,' Rai said.

Born in a family with very little financial means, Harka Bahadur had left behind his three children. His has two sons, aged 19 and 16, and a daughter, who is 10. While the sons are already working as daily wage labourers in Pokhara, the girl is staying with her grandparents and studies in Grade III in her own village.

A version of this article appears in the print on February 16, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.