Satish Aditya
Raxaul (Bihar): Altogether 350 Nepalese migrant workers and pilgrims stuck at Raxaul on Indian side near Indo-Nepal border for the last 55 days due to lockdown in both the countries in the wake of COVID-19 returned to Nepal on May 27, 2020, through Integrated Chack-Post (ICP) at Raxaul in East Champaran District in North Bihar. They were received by the officials in Parsa district at at Birgunj, Nepal.
Amit Kumar, SDM, Raxaul, said these Nepalese were quarantined at different centres at Raxaul. Those who returned to Nepal on
May 27, 2020, are residents of Parsa, Bara, Rautahat, and Narayanghat districts in southern part of Nepal, and were eagerly waiting for
their return to Nepal. They had blocked the road at Raxaul on May 26, 2020, raising slogans against Nepal government but SDM Kumar and police officers pacified them.
Ajay Kumar Pankaj, Immigration Officer, Raxaul, said, ” We were waiting for no objection for their return from Nepal government and it was received on May 27, 2020.”
It may be recalled here that under ‘Vande Bharat Mission’ 600 Indian migrant workers and others on May 26, 2020, returned to India through Raxaul ICP from Nepal where they had remained stranded in Parsa District due to lockdown and curfew. Around 6,000 Indians have been registered in Indian embassy at Kathmandu for getting pass to return to India, according to embassy sources. They will return next week.