Kathmandu, November 10
The Nepal government says it will provide vocational skill development training to around 10,000 foreign employment aspirants free of cost.
The Foreign Employment Promotion Board is launching 13 training programmes this year that include construction works, hotel and hospitality and security sectors among others, says the Board’s Executive Director Raghuraj Kafle.
Kafle says the training aims at addressing troubles that unskilled and semi-skilled migrant workers have to face while working abroad.
“The youth who go abroad without training cannot earn good; but if they have skills, they do not need to face much trouble,” Kafle says, “Therefore, we are training 10,000 youth this year.”
The Board says it has started the process to select organisations to run training programmes.
According to him, around 1,500 trainees from remote areas of the country will be provided with the residential facilities during the one-month training.
Various donor agencies are providing technical and financial support to the Board for the programme.
The government had run a similar programme last year too.
