Three million Nepali youths toiling in foreign lands

by subir on Thursday, July 15th 2010, 3:39 PM

Three million Nepali youths toiling in foreign lands:-

Thursday, 15 July 2010

More than 3 million Nepali youths are currently involved in overseas employment, contributing significantly to the country's economy and helping reduce poverty that mars the nation, state-owned news agency RSS quoted a top official of a government agency that promotes and monitors foreign employment as saying.

According to Thaneshwore Devkota, Executive Director of Foreign Employment Promotion Board, an amount to the tune of Rs 210 billion enters the country every year in the form of remittance sent by those working abroad, which has helped reduced the country's poverty from 42 percent to 31 percent.

Speaking at a programme on foreign employment held at Dhadingbesi in Dhading Wednesday, Devkota said that although foreign employment has contributed significantly in reducing poverty in the country, young Nepali men and women who go abroad illegally without proper skills fall victim to all kinds of abuses including sexual abuse and are compelled to engage in menial jobs.

He stressed upon the need to start various programs at the community level to create awareness about both the positive as well as the negative aspects of foreign employment including trainings to impart them with necessary skills needed before going abroad to work.

nepalnews.com