KATHMANDU: Three Nepali migrant workers left stranded in Qatar for the past three months have been rescued in an initiative of the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers (OPMCM).

Tilak Bista, Laxman Singh Pant and Harish Bhandari of Belauri Municipality in Kanchanpur district had reached Qatar in the last week of October 2016 in search of jobs. They had paid Rs 260,000 each to the Kathmandu-based Avatar Human Resources Pvt Ltd, a manpower company, for processing their working visas to the gulf country.

They had paid Rs 260,000 each to the Kathmandu-based Avatar Human Resources Pvt Ltd, a manpower company, for processing their working visas to the gulf country.

After failing to get jobs on the foreign soil, they had called up the PM's Secretariat and requested for rescuing them. In response to their appeal for rescue, the OPMCM in cooperation with the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Labour started processes at the diplomatic level to bring them back to the country. The Nepali Embassy in Qatar facilitated the rescue efforts and they finally arrived here on January 25.

In response to their appeal for rescue, the OPMCM in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Labour had started processes at the diplomatic level to bring them back to the country.

The Nepali Embassy in Qatar had facilitated the rescue efforts and they finally arrived here on January 25.

According to PM's press advisor Govinda Acharya, now the Office is working to make the manpower company to refund the amount the victims paid to it for processing their visas.