Nepalis migrant workers abroad are vulnerable

The experts and diplomats today said that foreign employment was not a long-term solution.
Speaking at a seminar on 'Global Financial Recession and Its Impact on Foreign Employment' organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in collaboration with the Ministry of Labour and Transport Management, diplomats were of the view that global recession had hit albeit less the major countries where there is large concentration of Nepali migrant workers.
Nepali ambassadors from the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Israel, Republic of Korea and Malaysia presented first-hand information about these countries and the condition of Nepali migrant workers there.
Inaugurating the seminar, Minister for Labour and Transport Management Lekhraj Bhatta said Nepali youths are compelled to go out for foreign employment due to lack of employment opportunities here at home.
The envoys giving the first hand account of these countires highlighted that the Nepalis missions abroad needs to be strenghtened to tackle such labour problems. "Construction sector in the most of the countries in the Gulf and Malaysis is hit by the recession and majority of Nepalis are employed in this sector making them more vulnerable," they opined.