By A Staff Reporter
Kathmandu, Mar. 29: Migrant workers who once returned from foreign employment do not have to take orientation training when they want to go abroad again.
Currently, there is an arrangement for anyone to take a new work permit and take an orientation.

Speaking at a press conference, Minister for Labour, Employment and Social Security Krishna Kumar Shrestha said that the compulsory provision of re-orientation training for those who have gone abroad for the same work has been scrapped.

According to him, this arrangement has been made realising that there was no need for re-orientation as the workers are aware of the concerned destination country.
He said that the Ministry was preparing to conduct all kinds of skills training in an integrated manner to make youths who are going abroad professional and skilled in their works.

According to him, the Ministry is in the final stage of preparing the guideline 2078 for the reunification operation and management of the returnees and submitting it to the Council of Ministers.
Minister Shrestha is confident that after the implementation of this directive, those who are thinking of returning to Nepal from abroad and doing something will get necessary help.
He claimed that the work of giving re-approval only through the online system has been effective to make the labour approval paperless and provide services easily by making maximum use of information technology.

He said that the government will gradually make the informal labour sector formal.
Stating that the government has been identifying new labour markets at home and abroad and making jobs secure and safe, he said the Ministry has already started discussion with the concerned authorities of Nepal's labour market in this regard.

Minister Shrestha also made public the work he has done so far and his plans. At present, Nepalis can go to 178 countries with individual labour permits, while 110 countries can be visited with institutional labour permits.

Minister Shrestha described the recent visits to the United Arab Emirates, Seychelles and Qatar as fruitful.
He said that an agreement has been reached with Qatar to sign a new labour agreement in coming June.