FEPB to provide training to 10000 annually

Kathmandu / February 6: The Foreign Employment Promotion Board is to provide free training to 10,000 youths willing to go for foreign employment.

The training is being provided to the youths as most of them are unskilled and hence face difficulty in course of employment abroad. Earlier, the FEPB had been organizing such training to around 3,000 youths annually. Preparations are now being made to reach it to over 10,000.

The training will be imparted as per the need of the particular country, said board’s executive director Raghuraj Kafle.

The training will include electrician, plumber, housekeeping, wiring, cook, security guard would be organized. The training would be organized in targeted districts. The board has allocated an annual budget of 150 million rupees for the training programme.

The Safer Migration Project (SaMi), a bilateral initiative of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and Government of Nepal, is contributing 100 million rupees for the training programme. RSS