27 Indian workers stranded in Cameroon sought help from the Centre
In a video message, the workers claimed they were brought to Cameroon on March 31 by a private company. However, the company has not paid the workers for the last four months.
New Delhi: They have not been paid for the past four months and are running out of food and water. And some of them don't even have money to recharge their phones. This is the heartbreaking story of 27 workers from Jharkhand stranded in Cameroon. In a video message, he called for the Center to pull out of the Central African nation. Interestingly, these workers are from Bokaro, Giridih and Hazaribagh.
In a video message, the workers claimed they were brought to Cameroon on March 31 by a private company. However, the company has not paid the workers for the last four months.
They claimed that they were running out of food and water and had no money even to recharge their phones.
After their plight became public, Minister for Women, Child Development and Social Security Baby Devi requested the External Affairs Ministry to ensure their safe return and tagged Minister S Jaishankar.
“27 youths from Bokaro, Hazaribagh and Giridih districts of our Jharkhand state are stranded in Cameroon, South Africa. All of them were working in a private company there, but they have not received salary for the last four months,” said Devi in a post on X.
Sikandar Ali, a social activist and activist working on the issue of migrant workers, has demanded that the central and state governments take concrete diplomatic initiatives for the safe return of the workers.
This is not the first incident of this case. Several such cases have come to light in the past in Jharkhand and other places as well.
In 2023, a group of workers were stranded in Saudi Arabia and appealed to the Jharkhand government to facilitate their return. At that time, laborers from Bokaro, Giridih and Hazaribagh districts claimed that they were engaged by a contractor for the construction work. However, the contractor stopped the work and did not pay them.
Similarly, in 2022, a group of workers from Jharkhand were stranded in Mali and were later rescued after they appealed to Indian authorities for help on social media.
