Reintegration program for returnee migrant workers launched

Kathmandu / April 12: The Foreign Employment Board has initiated a reintegration program coordinating efforts with the local governments for the returnee Nepali migrant workers.

The Board is implementing this project for the first time for which it placed a separate directive to launch the project.

The Board said that the program has been implemented by sharing cost with various local governments to breed returnee migrant workers into entrepreneurs.

Agreements have been inked with 81 local governments in all seven provinces to enforce the program, shared Rama Bhattarai, director of the Board.

A total of 21 local governments in Bagmati Province, 16 in Madhesh Province, 13 in Koshi Province, 14 in Gandaki Province and altogether 18 in Lumbini Province and Sudurpaschim Province have signed agreements with the Board for the project.

The Board is hopeful that an estimated 3,000 returnee migrant workers would be benefited by the program. The Board has allocated over Rs 150 million for the project in the current fiscal year 2022/23.

Of the proposals submitted by the local governments along with the programs according to their needs, the Board said that an agreement was made that the local governments expressing interest to implement this program would do so by adding 50 per cent of the amount allocated by the Board.RSS