Muscat, July 3 (ANI): Twenty-six Indian construction workers employed in Oman are living without salary for nearly six months.
These workers were hired by Western Transport and Fai International, both owned by the same proprietor in Azaiba district of Muscat.
"We are sitting here without work and have not been paid our wages for over six months," the Gulf news quoted Surender Singh, a worker, as saying.
Singh, who spoke on behalf of the group, also alleged that the sponsor had beaten up some of the workers when they approached for wages.
He told that each of the workers had paid Rupees 50,000 to the agent for taking up this job.
"Most of us have taken money on interest back home, hoping to make it up by earning here in Oman but now we are not earning and interest is accumulating," Singh said.
Singh said that all the workers are keen to go home but the sponsor was not responding. "He keeps changing his mobile numbers and goes incommunicado," he said.
Meanwhile, some workers have now approached the Indian embassy to intervene.
"Three of the workers had initially approached us but now we realised that the number is bigger and have taken up the matter with the relevant authorities," said a spokesperson for the Indian embassy. (ANI)
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