Deserving decision
The Himalayan Times
7 December 2017
Deserving
decision
More than 400,000 migrant workers
are working in the gulf region as the semi and non-skilled workers. Millions of
foreign currencies are entered into the country as the remittance on a monthly
basis. Nepal is a country that receives one of the highest proportions of
remittance in terms of gross domestic product (GDP) in the world. In fact, remittances account for 30 percent of
the country’s GDP. However, the funds from remittances are mostly being used as
a means for survival of their families. So far, there are no other provisions
of the government for giving benefits except providing compensation of Rs.
700,000 to the immediate family of the migrant workers in case of their death
or if they are critically injured or serious ill while working abroad.
It was wonderful to know that the
children of migrant workers will be provided with free technical education
effective beginning of March 2018 “Free technical education for kids of
affected migrant workers” (THT, December 5, Page 11). The Foreign Employment
Promotion Board (FEPB) is preparing for the first time to provide free
technical education in view of supporting the families of migrant workers who
pass away or suffer serious injuries or illness while working in foreign lands.
This programme includes free education in the field of civil engineering,
nursing and agriculture, for which FEPB will bear all the cost of beneficiary
children. This cost includes course fee, uniform, rent and travel costs.
The purpose of this programme is
to help the children of migrant workers to develop the technical skills to be
used for generating livelihood opportunities. Under this programme, children,
who can read and write, will be provided with one year vocational training in
the field of agriculture. Likewise, children, having passed the School Leaving
Certificate (SLC), are given three year diploma course designed by CTEVT. FEPB
has allocated for this fiscal year 120 seats for three-year diploma course in
any of civil engineering, nursing and agriculture and 200 for one-year
vocational training on agriculture.
Rai
Biren Bangdel
Maharajgunj
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