When she saw her husband returning back from abroad shortly after he had gone there, she suddenly became surprised to see him. But when she came to know that he returned back with empty hands, she was dejected and felt as if she had fallen down from the branch of a tree. This is the real tale of Bachu Pokhrel.

She became so sad because her husband had taken loan from the local landlord for the process to go there. At the beginning, she was worried thinking how the debt will be refunded. Thinking that most mothers and many husbands of many wives had yet to return back, she counted felt herself lucky in this regard, thinking that at least her husband had successfully returned back.

“ The arrival of my husband is my fortune. Landlord’s loan! No problem we will pay it by doing something here,” she said to herself. This is not a dialogue of any movie but it is a real event. It is all about Laxman Pokhrel of Narayangadha, Bharatpur 4. It was the matter of three or four months before there was a whim among the youth in Narayangadha to go abroad. So Pokhrel also planned to have a rosy dream. After a long attempt he managed to go to Malaysia by paying Rs. 85,000 through Kasturi manpower. During the agreement he was told that he would receive RM 750 Malaysian currency as salary. He passed a difficult life in a woodcarving factory called Mount Industries in Malaysia for two and half months over there. “We started doing work in Rs. 750 R.M. but as soon the owner of the industry showed us the agreement paper of Rs. 440 RM only, we suddenly thought that we had been cheated,” said Pokhrel. “Our duty hour was from 12-13 hours everyday but the facilities were very limited,” added he.

“Even at the end of month we were not provided salary on time. When we received it, there was one hundred less than the amount fixed during our agreement. We had been told that the amount was being taken for paying the government’s tax,” he said expressing his sadness.

In this way, slowly he became frustrated from the job and the memory of his family haunted his mind.

In connection with other Nepali youth working there he said that they are passing very troublesome life. Most of them have become disabled. However, neither the government nor the owners have any positive response for them, he said. Similarly, Pandit Rai of Morang, Sobet Bahadur Tamang of Jhapa, Krishna Bahadur Rana of Baglung and Satyanarayan Mahasetha of Janakpur easily come in his tongue. These people are still leading a disabled life in Malaysia, said he.

He along with other suffering workers filed a case against the company in the Nepal embassy situated there but unfortunately instead of trying to give a fair decision, Narayan Prasad Mainali, an employee of the embassy just assured them to do something to the manpower by which they were cheated. Now Pokhrel is planning to do something here rather than planning to go somewhere again.