5 migrant workers from Jharkhand, stuck in Africa's Cameroon, brought back to India

Five migrant workers from Jharkhand, stuck in Cameroon in Central Africa, have been brought back to India, officials said.

These workers were hired by a Mumbai-based multinational company to lay transmission lines in Cameroon. They were allegedly not paid salaries for the last five months.

"Their pending salaries were cleared in Cameroon, and their flight landed in Mumbai on Tuesday. They will board a train to Jharkhand on Wednesday," said Shikha Lakra, the team leader of the State Migrant Control Room.


"We got in touch with the Indian High Commission in Cameroon, and shared all the documents of the workers and their employer. The high commission got in touch with the local authorities and managed to clear the five months' pending salaries of each of the five workers," she said on Tuesday.

The workers had shared a video, narrating their ordeal, with social activist Sikander Ali, who reported it to the Labour Department.

The labourers were identified as Sunil Mahato, Sukar Mahato, Chandrashekhar Kumar and Dilon Mahato, all residents of Hazaribagh, and Dilchand Mahato of Giridih.