Stories point out that the Sri Lanka Bureau of International Employment (SLBFE) has positioned roughly Rs. 2 billion in compensation owed to 948 Sri Lankan migrant staff repatriated from Kuwait into a hard and fast deposit as a substitute of distributing the funds to the rightful beneficiaries.
In response to sources throughout the Bureau, the fastened deposit has now grown to round Rs. 5 billion with accrued curiosity. They additional declare that not a single rupee of the compensation has to this point been paid to the beneficiaries.
In 1994, throughout the battle in Kuwait, migrant staff from a number of international locations, together with home staff, had been repatriated from the nation.
Almost 90,000 Sri Lankan migrant staff had been amongst these introduced again. By way of the intervention of the United Nations Compensation Fee (UNCC), compensation amounting to US$320 million was awarded for 87,000 Sri Lankan staff.
Nevertheless, compensation couldn’t be paid to 948 of these 87,000 staff as a result of their paperwork and certificates couldn’t be formally verified, whereas in some instances no details about the people could possibly be traced.
Sources throughout the Bureau additional allege that, for greater than 30 years, no significant progress has been made in the direction of distributing the Rs. 2 billion owed to those 948 beneficiaries, regardless of the funds remaining underneath the Bureau’s management.
It’s also reported that there are plans to make use of the amassed funds to assemble a brand new constructing for the Sri Lanka Bureau of International Employment. The proposal has reportedly drawn sturdy opposition from a number of events.
