The
Employment Fund in association with Helvetas Swiss Inter-cooperation Nepal is
planning to train 16,000 Nepalis in 2014.
The training
is expected to fulfill the growing demand for skilled youth labour force in country
to some extent, said the Fund, adding that every year around 450,000 youths
enter the labour market but are incapable of addressing the market needs because
around 90 per cent of them are unskilled. "The Fund will train and employ 12,000
marginalised youth, who are in dire need and develop 4,000 youth as
entrepreneurs, who can create employment later."
The Fund –
after a survey on market demand for skill – determined the required skills to
be provided to labour. It has selected 39 organisations across the country to provide
training for the current year. They are also responsible for the job placement
of trainees. The Fund also spends around Rs 50,000 per person in providing
training, it added.
In the first
phase of the programme, youths are provided with skills of their interest.
"They will work as a paid employee during the training period and later
establish their own business and generate employment for at least one another,"
according to the Fund that aims at generating 4,000 employers this year under the
programme.
Likewise, the
second phase focuses on marginalised youths – who are in extreme condition –
including youths living with HIV, gender violence survivors, handicapped,
street children and orphans, prisoners and former prisoners, bonded labourers
and squatters. It plans to benefit 12,000 youth.
The Fund –
since its operation in 2008 – has been benefiting around 70,000 youths of the
country, out of which around 50,000 are in training related jobs, it claimed
but the unemployment is rising.
It has
provided 121 types of training till date, it said, reporting that on an average
they are earning around Rs 5,500 per month. "Labours who have been
employed for the past three years are earning Rs 10,000 on average."
Most of
those who have quit their jobs despite the training are women due to pregnancy,
low wage and family pressure, added the Fund that has categorised people earning
less than Rs 4,600 per month even after the training as underemployed.
"People
who earn around Rs 10,000 per month are not interested in foreign employment,"
according to team leader at the Employment Fund/Helvetas Swiss Inter-cooperation
Nepal Bal Ram Paudel.
Last year around
35 per cent – of the 17,000 trainees – were self-employed, he claimed.
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