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Nepalis have not gone anywhere to work?
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Standing at the Tribhuvan International Airport, it seems that the whole of Nepal is going abroad. Because every day an average of 2200 Nepalis are taking work permit to go for foreign employment. According to the Department of Labor, there are 65,658 people who come and go on vacation and get new work permits in the month of February alone.
So many Nepalis have taken work permits for working in 99 different countries. In this month, Nepalis for employment From Uruguay to Tanzania, they have reached the African country of Somalia and from Kenya to Europe's Italy, Denmark and Belgium, and to the small island country of Bermuda, the Caribbean island of Barbados.
New countries are added every year where Nepalis go to work. Looking at this data of Nepal Labor Migration Report 2022, it is known that since 2017/18, the number of people going to work abroad in countries like Romania, Croatia, Cyprus, Maldives, UK, Poland, Malta, Turkey, Seychelles, Albania and Jordan is increasing.
According to the Nepal Labor Migration Report 2022, Dhanusha is number one in the list of districts with the highest number of foreign employment in the three financial years since 2019/20. Sirah is in the second list of the districts that send the most abroad in the financial year 2021/21, while Mahottari is in the third, Jhapa in the fourth, Sarlahi in the fifth, Morad in the sixth, Saptari in the seventh, Sunsari in the eighth, Rupandehi in the ninth and Rautahat in the tenth. This data shows that 5 out of 8 districts of Madhesh province are in the top ten list of districts to go abroad in search of work.
What are the skills of Nepalis who have gone abroad to work? Out of 65 thousand 658 people who received work permit in February, only 85 people have higher education, i.e. 0.12 percent. And there are a total of 349 people with professional skills, i.e. 0.53 percent. There are 5 thousand 160 semi-skilled people, that is 7.85 percent. There are 47 thousand 577 people who are educated, i.e. 72.46 percent. There are 18.97 percent of workers who do not have any skills and abilities.
Looking at the data of Nepal Labor Migration Report for the three years since 2019/20, the number of unskilled workers going abroad is almost half. Looking at this data, the percentage of workers without any skills in 2019/20 among those who went for foreign employment is 57.8 percent. In 2020/21, this percentage is 56.2 and in 2021/22, it is 54.2 percent.
प्रकाशित : चैत्र २१, २०८० १८:५६
