But this is not an end to his predicaments as he is now caught deep into debt trap. The jobless driver is unable to return the money he borrowed to materialize his foreign dream but he is now also loaded with additional burden of loan which he borrowed from Saudi Arabia to survive.
Resident of Bhagian village near Tanda in Hoshiarpur district, Jaswant Singh told TOI on Sunday that few international NGO’s had taken up his case and managed to arrange emergency travel documents which enabled him to return home.
Jaswant Singh had gone to Kuwait on May 30th, but instead of driver’s job he was sent to Riyadh and was forced to work as camel herder. The strenuous work of feeding and taking camels to pastures in desert left him severely ill.
TOI, on September 20th, had carried his story following which the issue of his release was taken up at various levels. "It is my second life, I will never ever go back to Gulf," he said.
Jaswant had struck a deal for Rs 75,000 with a local travel agent to get him driver’s job in Kuwait and had also paid Rs 50,000 which he had borrowed from his friends and relatives.
"In Saudi Arabia, I had borrowed another Rs 60,000 to meet my medical and food expenses. How will I repay the loans?" he questioned adding that the travel agent and his son in Kuwait, who had sent him to a village near Riyadh, had denied receiving any money from him.
Twenty nine years old Jaswant is now searching for a job to repay his loans.
"I suffered a lot. I am lucky that I returned. There are several others like me. I want government to take strict action against these scrupulous travel agents who put life of young boys in danger for some money," he said.