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Bharatpur. Chitwan is the first among the districts that go for foreign employment with labor permits. Out of the 13 districts of Bagmati Province, 15,823 people have obtained labor permits for foreign employment in Chitwan this year. Surya Prasad Poude, Program Coordinator of the Foreign Employment and Immigration and Sami Program, said that the number of people going abroad without obtaining work permits is also high.
“The number of people from Chitwan going to European countries including Australia, America, and Britain for higher education is high,” he said. “It is becoming difficult to find a household that has not gone abroad,” according to him, “In Bharatpur Metropolitan City alone, some person from 34,500 households has gone for foreign employment.”
According to the statistics of the Department of Labor and Employment, 771,327 people from Nepal obtained work permits in the fiscal year 2079/2080. Of these, 116,932 people have obtained work permits from Bagmati Province alone. The highest number of people who have received labor permits is from Chitwan district, 15,823. Coordinator Poudel informed that Chitwan is the district with the highest number of foreign employment after Dhanusha. In the previous fiscal year, 1,161 people had obtained passports from here.
In Chitwan, the highest number of people from Bharatpur Metropolitan City, 6,561, have received labor permits. Similarly, 2,127 people from Madi Municipality, 1,08 people from Ichchakamana Rural Municipality, 1,471 people from Ratnanagar Municipality, 1,679 people from Kalika Municipality, 1,688 people from Khairhani Municipality and 1,291 people from Rapti Municipality have received labor permits.
There is a problem of fraud in Chitwan during foreign employment. The District Administration Office, Chitwan, received 136 applications in the current fiscal year. Of these, 60 percent were applications that middlemen had taken money and fled. Deputy Mayor Chitrasen Adhikari said that Bharatpur Metropolitan City is working to create employment in the country. “There is no shortage of people going abroad illegally. The number of people going to India is the same,” he said. “We, the people’s representatives, should use the resources, water, land, and forests here and connect the skills here with production. We are making efforts for this.” He said that foreign employment is a nationwide problem.
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