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Pathetic tale of Punjab Girls, stranded in Oman-Muscat, seek Indian and Bhagwant Govt's help ( Watch Video )
Babushahi Bureau
Muscat, Oman September 17, 2022: As many as 12 Punjab girls stranded in Oman have urged Bhagwant Mann's government to facilitate their return back to India.
Girls who belong to various cities of Punjab including Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Moga, and Faridkot have gone to work as domestic help.
In a telephonic conversation with senior journalist and Babushahi Network Editor Baljit Balli, Amandeep Kaur hails from Ludhiana that she has been without work and lodging for two and half months.
"We have come here to work as domestic help but there is nothing here as promised by the agents. Girls from Punjab face a lot of harassment here. We didn't get the kind of work we were promised nor the salary. Many women have also been raped here," told dejected Amandeep Kaur who has been in Oman for the past eight months.
Sharing her plight, Kaur said that the people she and other girls were made to work all the time and were not even given proper food.
"Neither we have money nor passport. The agents took out passports upon our arrival here. Now we have left the place we were working and without work," she said pleading Mann Govt to help them in their repatriation.
Kaur further shared she along with other women knocked on many doors for help but received no response.
"We approached Indian Embassy but they didn't provide us any help.The Embassy asked to pay us a fine of Rs 1.2 lakh for facilitating our return. They asked to us file our report and wait for two to three months," she informed.
Aman added that after leaving the house where she worked, she along with other stranded women spend two and half months in Gurudwara.
"We were hoping that if we go there we will receive some help to go back to Punjab and after receiving no support, we left the Gurudwara. For the past 10 days we are living with a South Indian woman who works in the Embassy," she informed.
Kaur expressed that the agents have sold them here in lieu of domestic help.
"We have the number of the agents who brought us here. They are asking us to either furnish Rs 1.5 lakh or send another girl from Punjab in our place if we wish to go back. The agents have literally sold us. Our families back home are extremely worried. They don't have means to bring us back,' she commented.
She claimed that around 200 to 300 girls from India are stranded in Amman.
"We request Bhagwant Mann government to help us to return back to Punjab. We are without food and money. We have been suffering a lot for the past few months. Please help," she urged.