BHAKTAPUR: Prime Minister K. P. Oli says the government will knock each and every door to provide employment as part of the Prime Minister’s Employment Program.
“This is a glaring example of the government’s seriousness of providing employment to its citizens,” PM Oli said while inaugurating the program in Bhaktapur today.
“Those who question about the government’s existence will get an answer now,” he said.
Four municipalities of Bhaktapur have given employment to 700 people under the program so far. PM Oli claimed that the government has been working towards creating employment opportunities around 40 lakh Nepalese youths by stopping them from flying abroad for employment.
Coming down heavily on the opposition parties, PM Oli said that his government was performing well, and not engaged in using sugar-coated words as claimed by the opposition parties. “The government, I assure, is away from corrupt practices and fully focused on delivering good governance,” he claimed.
Gokarna Bista, Minister for Labor, Employment and Social Security revealed that the government is committed to providing employment to at least 500,000 Nepalese youth come what may. ”I have arranged for partial employment to 700 people recently in Bhaktapur” said Minister Gokarna adding that the government was working towards ending unemployment problem in the country.
The present budget has allocated Rs 3 billion for this purpose and it is likely to increase by Rs 5 billion in the next year’s budget. In the present budget, the government has provisioned for ‘unemployment allowances’ to the unemployed if it fails to provide them employment for a minimum number of the prescribed days.
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