Kathmandu, November 15
The sixth ministerial consultation of Colombo Process, a group of 12 Asian countries that send workers for overseas employment, has begun in Kathmandu on Thursday.
Nepal is the current chair of the group. Nepal’s Labour Secretary Mahesh Dahal is chairing the senior officials’ meeting today.
The ministerial consultation will begin on Friday officially. Spokesperson at the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security, Narayan Regmi, says Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli will inaugurate the meeting tomorrow.
Labour and Employment Minister Gokarna Bista will chair the meeting. Labour and employment ministers or their representatives of other 11 member states–Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam–will attend the event.
The Colombo Process was established in 2003 in response to calls from several Asian labour sending countries who increasingly recognised the need for optimising the benefits of organised labour migration whilst protecting their migrants from exploitative practices in recruitment and employment.
