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Entrepreneurship development would be expedited by best utilizing the labour, skills and experiences of the returnee migrants and others staying within the country

Shramadhan Employment Fair
Shramadhan Employment Fair

Biratnagar: The government would implement the concept of an ‘Employment Bank’ to ensure employment to the available human resources based on knowledge, skills and technical expertise.

Addressing the Shramadhan Employment Fair in Biratnagar today, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal said that the Employment Bank will deal with issues of demand and supply of jobs and entrepreneurship development. 

The Prime Minister said that entrepreneurship development would be expedited by best utilizing the labor, skills and experiences of the returnee migrants and others staying within the country.

He further stated that the government has made needed provisions in the upcoming fiscal year’s budget to ensure employment to as many as 100,000 returnee migrants as per their knowledge, capital, skills and technical expertise. The welfare of the workers will be protected for their good health and well-being to align the SDGs and policies and programmes of the government. 

The Prime Minister shared that the government was working to increase domestic employment through entrepreneurship development through proper utilization of remittance. “The country’s prosperity and citizens’ wellbeing should be promoted by ensuring domestic jobs to the citizens in the long run.” 

“The government has planned to make the potential job aspirants more competitive by promoting their skills and capacity building. Implementation of employment fair will directly benefit a large number of youths entering the labour market,” he said.  

Stating that the prosperity journey could be advanced through employment generation and the development of decent labour, Dahal appealed to the stakeholders for a joint effort and cooperation to materialize this. 

He termed the ‘Shramadhan Employment Fair’ a meaningful intervention and hoped that the fair would be instrumental in tapping into the opportunities in the labour and employment sector and offer a one-stop solution to the problems.

Likewise, the PM shared that several new programmes have been introduced in the new budget for the upcoming fiscal year for employment creation, entrepreneurship development of returnees, reviving the agriculture sector and others.