Mustang. The youth of Gharpajhong Rural Municipality are currently engaged in protecting the local level natural and biological heritage.
The rural municipality has deployed them to protect, promote and promote the natural and biological heritage within the municipality under the Prime Minister’s Employment Program and the Transformation Initiative for Youth Employment.
This program is being implemented regularly to mobilize unemployed youth at the local level to protect natural resources. Foreign aid funds have been provided by the federal government and the World Bank for this type of program with the aim of creating short-term employment for unemployed youth in rural areas.
Sharmila Shrees, coordinator of the rural municipality’s employment service center, informed that the government’s objective is to enhance the skills and capabilities of the youth through the Prime Minister’s Employment Program, to make them own local natural resources, to provide minimum employment, and to minimize the problem of unemployment.
Shrees, coordinator of the employment service center, said that the program has helped to protect and develop the dilapidated natural resources within the municipality.
The federal government has provided Rs. 1.149 million for the current fiscal year 2081/82 under the Prime Minister’s Employment Program and Employment Service Center Coordinator Shree said that a capital budget of Rs 4.189 million has been allocated, including foreign aid of Rs 3.04 million.
The rural municipality has mobilized unemployed youth under the Prime Minister’s Employment Program for work including upgrading tourist trails, arranging roofing stones to laying them, repairing and improving irrigation canals, planting native crops, cleaning and improving agricultural inputs, among others.
In the current fiscal year, youth have been managed in employment-oriented work in all five wards of the rural municipality under the Prime Minister’s Employment Program. Under this, the responsibility of laying roofing stones, repairing and improving irrigation canals and tourist trails in Chhairo Chimang village of Ward No. 1 has been given.
In Ward No. 2, the responsibility of repairing irrigation canals, planting trees for traditional crops and cleaning the area, as well as improving agricultural productivity in the fields has been assigned. In Ward No. 3, the responsibility of repairing irrigation canals is being carried out in Syang village.
Similarly, the repair of the road leading to Dhofu (stone cave) has been started in Ward No. 4 of the rural municipality. Under Ward No. 5, the dilapidated road from Dhumba village to Kuchap Tarenga Gumba is being repaired. In the same ward, work is being done to clean up the tree plantation area, as well as to build and maintain a park.
Under the Prime Minister’s Employment Program, unemployed youth have been assigned to work to protect local heritage by providing them with a daily wage of Rs. 760 for 100 days, according to Employment Branch Coordinator Shree.
She informed that the youth in the concerned ward have been managed to work for eight hours daily. In the current year’s program, the rural municipality’s employment branch center has managed 55 young people in all five wards of the municipality, said the employment service center coordinator Shree.
Similarly, she said that the necessary safety equipment and household tools have been arranged for the young people participating in the employment program to avoid risks while working in the field.
Under the said program, the rural municipality was allocated a budget of Rs. 2.149 million and foreign loan assistance of Rs. 2.858 million to create employment last year. Last year, the employment service center of Gharpajhong provided short-term employment to 65 people in all five wards, said the coordinator Shree.
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