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Japanese keen to hire Nepalis
KATHMANDU, JUL 28 -
Japanese entrepreneurs visiting Nepal to interview aspirant trainee workers have said that they are interested in hiring more Nepalis to lessen their dependency on Chinese and Vietnamese workers.
Japan has been receiving 60,000-65,000 trainee workers annually from 15 countries under the Japan International Training Cooperation Organization (JITCO) programme, in which workers receive training and then work as industrial trainee workers for three years.
Addressing a press conference on Wednesday, Khatsusei Ichiro, director of an agricultural farm in Chiba-ken, Japan said, "We want to take loyal and honest trainee workers from Nepal since the trend of involvement of Chinese and Vietnamese workers in criminal activities is increasing in Japan."
In a bid to reduce dependence on China, Japan has put Nepal, Bangladesh and Mongolia in its list of priority sources of labour.
Ichiro is currently in Nepal to interview 28 JITCO aspirants, who will fly to Japan for traineeship work within three to six months, from Pathibhara Overseas, an employment agency in Nepal.
Ichiro added that they would hire more workers from Nepal in the future as there was so much potential for Nepali trainee workers to get employed in sectors such as animal husbandry, bakeries and agriculture.
His company is hiring 22 male and six female trainee workers who will receive a monthly salary of Rs. 70,000 during the first two months of technical training following which they will be paid Rs. 101,000 monthly.
It has already been five months since the JITCO Directives 2010 was issued to send Nepali trainee workers in a systematic way.
However, so far just nine employment agencies have been able to obtain requests for 155 Nepali trainee workers, according to the Migration Resource Centre. JITCO had said that Nepal could supply around 20,000 trainees during 2010, but Nepali agencies have not been able to
take advantage of the opportunity.
Hansa Raj Wagle, vice president of the Nepal Association of Foreign Employment Agencies, said that they had failed to receive large orders due to lack of government cooperation.
"We have been told to go to Japan and market our potential, but the government doesn't recommend our visa applications."
He urged all the selected employment agencies to speed up marketing in Japan and obtain requests within a year as otherwise their licenses under the JITCO programme would be scrapped.
Posted on: 2010-07-29 08:12
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