The Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security has published the ‘Nepal Labor Migration Report 2022’. A report covering labor migration, status of labor migration and other issues in Nepal has been published. Labor, Employment and Social Security Minister Sher Bahadur Kunwar and Secretary Ek Narayan Aryal jointly released the report in a program organized by the Main Ceremony Committee on Sunday on the occasion of International Migrant Workers’ Day. On that occasion, Labor Minister Kunwar said that the state should be serious about workers. He said that the government is ready to address the problems of labor destination countries and to relieve the pain of workers. He also said that the government will move ahead with the social security of the workers who have returned from abroad and their decent rehabilitation.
The report is covered in six chapters, overview of Nepalese migration, migration regime in Nepal, status of labor migration, related issues, lack of labor migration data in Nepal and way forward. According to the report, the main labor destination of Nepali workers is Qatar. 35 percent of the total foreign employment went to Qatar. Similarly, after Qatar, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been chosen by Nepali workers respectively. According to the report, in the year 2078/79, 410 Nepalese disappeared during their foreign employment, while 3,099 people died during their employment. Labour Minister Kunwar said that the government is ready to address the problems of labor destination countries and relieve the pain of workers.
According to the same report, it has been shown that a large part of the workers who go for foreign employment are unclassified workers. In other words, 40 percent of the workers do not know exactly what field they will be working in when they go to the destination country. According to the report, 6.1 percent went to the construction sector, 8 percent to drivers and machine operators and 8.9 percent to industrial production. 39 percent of women go into sanitation, while the ratio of women into service professions is 25 percent.