'Given Rs 600 to split between 8 people’: Jharkhand men stranded in UAE with no pay for 3 months
For Charuman Mahto, the last few weeks have been trying. The company that they are employed with in the United Arab Emirates hasn’t paid him in weeks, he doesn’t have enough money to afford food and rent and now, he faces the additional threat of homelessness after their landlord has threatened to throw them out.
Charuman is among 15 migrant workers from Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh and Giridih districts who have been left stranded in Hamim in the outskirts of UAE’s Abu Dhabi after their Hyderabad-based utility company stopped paying them three months ago. With no money for rent, utilities or even food, the workers, who were hired to lay transmission lines, have now appealed to the central and state governments here to help them return home…
Calls and texts to contractor Tirupati Reddy and the company’s supervisor went unanswered…
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