23,000 Nepalese enter India via Trinagar-Gauriphanta border in search of jobs

Dhangadhi: On the day of Saune Sakranti, Dinesh Khabar reached the Trinagar-Gauriphanta border and found hundreds of Nepalese crossing the Trinagar-Gauriphanta border to go to India. 

 Roshan Chaudhary of Gauriganga Municipality of Kailali was in the same line. He had returned to Nepal from India during the second wave of Coronavirus, but he is now returning back to India in search of work. He said that he is returning to India as it is getting difficult for his family to light their stove at home for a single meal. He said, “I don’t think that the pandemic will be under control. But I can’t keep staying hungry in my own country.  Therefore, I am bound to return to India in search of work. 

Chaudhary was accompanied by Naresh BK of Bajura who said, "I had been working in India for many years and returned home due to the pandemic, but I can't afford to stay at home and earn a livelihood.”

Although, the Coronavirus pandemic is still raging, the crowds going to India through the Gauriphanta border crossing has been increasing. In the last one week alone, more than 23,000 Nepalis have entered India through Gauriphanta and Gaddachauki, two checkpoints in the Far-West.

While, four thousand three hundred and ninety three people have returned home from India in the last seven days but 23 thousand 696 Nepalis have entered India from Nepal.