E-Kantipur

KATHMANDU, JUL 27 -

The government is sending high-level teams to major labour destinations to discuss issues related to Nepali workers and promote labour exports there. The delegation to Japan and a number of other countries will be led by the labour minister while the labour secretary will head the rest of the teams.

The delegations will visit Malaysia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Japan, said the Ministry of Labour and Transport Management. The ministry has asked Nepali embassies through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to fix appropriate dates.

“The high-level team to Malaysia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates will study the difficulties being faced by Nepali workers and seek solutions to them,” said Labour Minister Mohammad Ishtiyak Rai.

Krishna Hari Pushkar Karna, assistant spokesperson of the ministry, said that the delegation to Japan will study why Nepali foreign employment agencies have not been able to send adequate numbers of trainee workers to Japan under the Japan International Training Cooperation Organization’s (JITCO) scheme.

“The squad will hold talks about the difficulties faced by the agencies,” said Karna. He added that other teams would concentrate on skilled labour promotion, increasing the salaries of workers and sorting out problems.

Meanwhile, the ministry has stated that South Korea has assured Nepal that it would increase the quota for Nepal by an additional 2,000 workers under the Employment Permit System (EPS). Korea has provided 7,100 job positions for Nepal in the manufacturing sector for next year.

According to the ministry, Kyung Sik Lim, director general of HRD Korea, has verbally pledged to increase the quota during his visit to Nepal for the Korean Language Test held last Friday and Saturday.

Meanwhile, the ministry last Saturday honoured Lim and Kim Byeong Cheon, director of EPS Centre Nepal Office, for their contribution in providing employment opportunities to Nepali youths under the EPS. Korea hires workers from 15 developing countries under this programme and Nepali workers have left a good track record in the EPS.

PNG, Mauritius being mulled as new destinations

Labour Minister Mohammad Ishtiyak Rai said that the government was mulling sending skilled workers to Papua New Guinea and Mauritius as new destinations. Even though there is great possibility to send a huge number of workers to Papua New Guinea and Mauritius, only a few people are leaving for these countries through individual contracts. Out of the more than 300,000 worker departures in the last fiscal year, one worker went to Papua New Guinea and nine to Mauritius.

Posted on: 2011-07-27 11:33

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