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Province-2 to provide employment to foreign-returnees losing jobs to COVID-19



JANAKPURDHAM: The Province-2 government is preparing to provide appropriate opportunity to people from the province who are bereft of employment in foreign countries due to the COVID-19.

Province-2 government chief minister Lalbabu Raut shared about this in a virtual discussion organized by the Labor and Employment Journalists’ Group on Tuesday.

He said the province government was preparing to keep the foreign-returnee Nepalis in their village with respect and provide them appropriate skills, adding there is also plan to provide employment to those who already have the necessary skills.

Chief Minister Raut said around one million Nepalis are expected to return hoe from abroad in Province-2 alone. “Program would be brought to attract those foreign-returnees towards agriculture and other sectors.

The province government would also link these people in productive employment,” he said.

According to him, around 500 thousand youths from Province-2 are in India and 800 thousand in other third countries including in the Gulf countries and Malaysia. RSS

Publish Date : 03 June 2020 11:41 AM

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