Minister Yadav pledges collaboration with private sector to generate jobs

Kathmandu: The Ministry of Youth, Labour and Employment has held a discussion with representatives of the private sector in a bid to prepare an environment for creating jobs within the country.

In this connection, a discussion organised at the Ministry on Thursday laid emphasis on ensuring training at workplaces and making effective the apprenticeship/trainee programmes in the coming fiscal year.

The programme, chaired by Minister for Youth, Labour and Employment, Ramajee Yadav, shared information that the Ministry was advancing new policy and thoughts for labour management in line with the government’s announcement of the coming decade as the promotion of domestic jobs.

The Ministry has forwarded a plan to provide workplace-based training to run more than 12 major domestic employment programmes in the coming fiscal year.

The ‘Shram Sansar’ online portal will be made further systematic. Representatives of the private sector, however, expressed worry that the government regarded the private sector only as a ‘witness’.

In response, the Minister pledged that the government would not make the private sector a mere ‘witness’ but take on board as a ‘partner’ for progress, for which cooperation and coordination would be forthcoming accordingly.

Employment generation and skill development are the government’s priorities, the Minister added. The representatives of the Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry, the Confederation of Nepalese Industries and the Nepal Chamber of Commerce stressed that training should be demand-based and that the private sector be taken on board while preparing skills curriculum and certification for job seekers and trainees.

Alignment of jobs to market needs, mobilisation of available workforces, guarantee of smooth electricity supply for small industries, tax reduction and exemption from house rent, rewards to the employers maintaining gender balance in their companies/business, and easy acquisition of permits for women entrepreneurs were pronounced issues during the meeting.

The event was also attended by lawmaker Bidushi Rana and Anushka Shrestha, joint secretaries from the related ministries and other high-level officials from the private sector.

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