The Supreme Court (SC)... has questioned the alarming deaths of Nepali migrant workers and issued an order of mandamus against line government authorities...

1,000 Nepali migrant workers declared healthy... have suffered death in destination countries each year. 97 per cent of such deaths have occurred in the Gulf region...

In other cases, the deaths are either said to be normal or the cause is unidentified. In majority of case, post mortem is not carried out citing natural causes. Due to this reason, actual cause of death cannot be identified and family of the deceased migrant workers are also deprived of accidental insurance facilities.