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Hundreds of Nepali migrant workers have started going to work in coal mines in Meghalaya in India . According to police, around 200 migrant workers, including children, adults and the elderly, go to the area through the eastern border point, Kakadvitta, on a daily basis. Around 100 youths from Khotang VDC went to work in coal mines on Tuesday alone. The workers said they are forced to go to India due to poverty. Anish Gelal, a twelfth grader who was on his way to the Indian state, said he was going to India to fund his studies. “Till now, my mother supported me for studies,” he said. The migrants work there from mid-December to mid-April and return home with the onset of the monsoon season to plant paddy. Kapil Karki, who has been sending Nepali migrants to work in coal mines in Shillong, said more than 10,000 people went to the Indian state in past one month alone. Most of the migrant workers are from Khotang, Solukhumbu, Bhojpur, Dhankuta, Ramechhap, Baglung, Tehrathum and Sankhuwasabha districts.
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Nepal, migrant workers, poverty, nepali migrants, Meghalaya, coal mines
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