Kathmandu- Nepal Trade Union Congress, Foreign Employment Cell held a street talk in New Baneshwor. ‘This year, the Government of Nepal has decided to organize a week-long program from December 18 with the theme of” “Good Governance in the Cycle of Labor Migration, Safe Limited Sipted Migration.
” On the occasion, a rally was taken out from the workplace with slogans such as suffrage to workers, provision of social security to migrant workers and dependent families, provision of limited employment in the country, making foreign employment limited and safe employment, regulating social security for migrant workers, utilising the skills and experience of returnee workers.
Dr. Krishna Hari Pushkar, Secretary of the Ministry of Labor Employment and Social Security, who was the chief guest at the Road Samvad, said that the Ministry is also active for the limited and safe employment of migrant workers as the Government of Nepal is positively working for the rights of migrant workers.
On the occasion, President of Nepal Trade Union Congress Yogendra Kunwar said that the organization has been conducting such programs every year for the rights of migrant workers and the then government had protested against the increased fee for health check-up of workers going to foreign employment in the last month and the Trade Union Congress had protested against the recent increase and thanked the government for revoking the decision as per the ministerial decision.
Dr. Dwarka Upreti, Executive Director of the Foreign Employment Board, and Lakshman Basnet, Secretary General of the SAARC Trade Union, also spoke for the rights of migrant workers. Ajay Kumar Rai, General Secretary of TED Union Congress and Head of the Foreign Employment Cell, who presided over the street dialogue, said that the TED Union Congress has always been committed to the rights of migrant workers and is trying to get all migrant workers from abroad to vote in this election.
A memorandum was also submitted to the Election Commission. Currently, about 7.6 million Nepalis are working as migrant workers and they contribute about 30 percent to Nepal’s GDP. International Migrants Day was established in 1990 by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers.
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