Kathmandu, June 12
The Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security
has prepared a five-year strategic plan for the first time.
The strategic plan has six pillars: internal employment
promotion, foreign employment management, labour relations and occupational
safety, vocational skills development training, contribution-based social
security, good governance promotion and labour diplomacy.
The five-year strategic plan has been prepared covering
various activities to be carried out in the next five fiscal years (2022/23 to 2027/28,
said the ministry in a statement on Sunday.
Minister for Labour, Employment and Social Security,
Krishna Kumar Shrestha, said that the plan has been prepared to guide the
activities to be carried out by the ministry and to make the work fruitful.
According to him, the strategic plan also assesses
various activities to be carried out in the next five fiscal years, the cost
required for it and expected achievement to be made from it. He said that the
strategy has been finalized by incorporating the suggestions received after
discussions with various stakeholders.
Towards internal employment promotion, it is mentioned
that minimum employment will be guaranteed, productive employment will be
promoted and expanded and integrated employment services will be provided.
Similarly, towards foreign employment management, the
plan aims to make foreign employment safe, systematic and dignified, to maximise
foreign employment by identifying skilled employment opportunities in the
international labour market.
Increasing labour productivity, maintaining good
industrial labour relations, making maximum use of labour force by making labour
practices dignified, implementing child labour prevention master plan,
occupational health and safety are also the priorities of the plan.
Similarly, promoting workplace risk reduction,
strengthening and capacity building of bodies working in the field of labour
administration, promoting business and human rights, formalizing informal labour,
and balancing the demand and supply of skilled and semi-skilled manpower as
required by the national labour market are other components of the plan.
In addition, vocational skills development training is
said to balance the demand and supply of manpower competing in the
international labour market.
The plan also aims to promote good governance and policy
and legal reform towards labour diplomacy, make internal employment management
effective, make foreign employment administration simple, accessible and
technology-friendly, make internal labour administration work fast, quick and
effective, maintain good financial and administrative governance and to make
labour diplomacy effective.
The strategic plan includes plans to expanding productive
employment opportunities in the country, reducing unemployment, improving
vocational and skill development training to produce labour force as per
national and international labour market demand, maintaining good industrial
labour relations, and ending all forms of labour exploitation including child
labour, and integrated social security.
The policy aims to include the general public under the
scope of contribution-based social security, make foreign employment safe,
dignified and systematic, and integrate and manage information systems related
to labour and foreign employment.
Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 13 June 2022.
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