PM directs for ensuring low-interest loan and re-entry permits from all local levels

Kathmandu / Jan 9: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ has directed the Labour Ministry to make arrangements for loans with low interest to people going abroad for employment saying that the youths who go for foreign employment are cheated by loan sharks and brokers.

At a discussion with the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security held at Singha Durbar on Tuesday afternoon, the PM instructed to make a provision to give low-interest loans to youths flying abroad for employment.

The PM said, “Make an arrangement to invest the money deposited in the Social Security funds in a project from where optimal benefits can be achieved. Make a result-oriented arrangement of the environment to invest in a project which makes foreign workers entrepreneurs and to utilize the skills and finance of those who have returned from the foreign employment aptly.”

“Implement with priority to involve all the formal, informal, those who have gone in foreign employment, and self-employed in the social security and expand it further,” The PM said.

Ensure re-entry permits for foreign employment available from all local levels: PM Prachanda

Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ has directed the concerned authority to arrange the provision of the re-entry permit for foreign employment from all the 753 local levels of the country.

In a discussion with the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security held at Singha Durbar on Tuesday afternoon, the PM instructed to make arrangements in such a way that all possible services need to be delivered from the local levels to end the compulsion to visit capital even for small things, according to the PM’s secretariat.

PM Prachanda said, “By updating the Foreign Employment Information Management System (FEIMS), expand it in such a way that it can be accessed in all 753 local levels, employers, and diplomatic agencies. Also, arrange for the provision to get the re-entry permits from all local levels.”