At least 45 impoverished Jharkhand workers who migrated to Malaysia were trapped-in. As many as 20 of them were sent behind the bars as their VISA got lapsed, while rest of them were struggling hard as their VISAs are going to laps soon.
The workers who were sent to jail by the Malaysian immigration officials are Sitaram Mahato, Teklal Mahato and Santos Mahato from Bokaro Jailal Mahato, Ajay Mahato, Ramlal Paswan, Heeraman, Churaman, Rameshwar Mahato, Ganesh Mahato, Baijnath Mahato, Amrit Mahato, Jitendra, Surendra, Bandhu, Chhatardhari, Neelkanth, Kunjlala and Manoj Mahato, informed Manoj Mahato over phone to his family members residing at Giridih. Manoj sought help for their family, he is one of them who went to Malaysia for work.
All of them had migrated to Malaysia last year and were hired by a Giridih based contractor Ramlala Mahato to work for SG Cables at Malaysia.The labourers work in transmission line at SG Cables at Kuching City in Malaysia and all are getting approximately Rs50,000 per month there. But since past five months they are not paid even a single pie as they were promised, informed Manoj over phone.
“The ongoing work of the company has been stopped over a dispute between the company and Malaysian Government,” he added.
Talking about their situation over phone, Manoj said, “Neither government nor company men are taking care for us. We all are starving due to lack of money. We have no communication since past five months, luckily a local humble and gentleman help me in making a call.”