S Korea to provide 2,000 seats for Nepali workers
Minister for Labour and Transport Management Ram Narayan Singh said today that his South Korean counterpart has assured him of providing work permit to some 2,000 skilled Nepali labourers in his country after January next year.
He said both the governments would work out necessary formalities to this effect. It may be noted that the Korean government last year cancelled the quota for trainee labourers citing irregularities of Nepal’s manpower agencies in connivance with Korean agents.
The minister, who met his Korean counterpart in August in connection with seeking opportunity for Nepali labourers in Korea, said that the quota to be received from Korea would be distributed to competent manpower agencies to select labourers.
“The ministry will distribute these quota to the competent manpower agencies to select the labourers under the guidelines given by the ministry,” Singh said at an interaction programme organised by the Media Group Nepal.
He said that the ministry had already called applications from eligible manpower agencies to be qualified for the selection of the workers for Korea. Singh said the ministry would set up at least 10 training centres across the country to provide basic training to Nepali youth seeking job in Korea.
Published on: 3 September 2015 | The Himalayan Times
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