The Rising Nepal Nation, November 5 2011 | Kartik 19, 2068 B.S. Saturday
By A Staff reporter Kathmandu, Nov. 3
Twenty-three children of remote Karnali, who were studying at an India based Christian school, are left stranded in the capital after they were brought to Kathmandu by Esther Benjamin Trust Nepal.
The Bhakundol based trust brought the students to Nepal in the name of rescuing them from what it termed as “trafficking” of Nepali girls to India.
However, the parents of the students said that some representatives of the trust- an Indian citizen named Shailaja, and Dilu Tamang, Bhaskar Jung Karki and Nir Karki brought the students to
Kathmandu forcibly from the Michael Job Matriculation Higher Secondary School without informing them.
Speaking at the programme, Alina Chauhan, one of the students, said the people of the trust claimed that they were the representatives of Nepal Government and journalists and lawyers when they reached at the India based school.
Chauhan added that “Initially we refused to come with them but later agreed when they promised that they would return us back to our school after ten days.”
“The organization brought us on September 4 from the School. It has
hampered our study. We request that a strong punishment be given to the trust people who brought us here. We also need a good school to give continuity to our education,” the studentsdemanded.
The students had been getting free education at school and they would also get free university education in India, parents said.
Parents blamed that the organization had attempted to destroy the future and character of the students, all of who are girls. They also demanded for a proper legal action to be taken against the organization and better education for all the “rescued” students.
However, Anuradhara Koirala, chairperson of the Maiti Nepal, said that parents of three to four students had requested her organization to rescue their children from the India based school.
Meanwhile, Nir Karki of the trust said that Concerned for Working Children (CWC) of India had rescued all the students and then brought them to Nepal. It later handed them to the Nepalese police in Bhairahawa and the police then handed them over to their.
The trust had also filed the case at Supreme Court on Tuesday against the alleged traffickers, who took the Nepali girls to India.
