Kathmandu, June 2
Minister for Labor, Employment and Social
Security, Krishna Kumar Shrestha, has said that zero tolerance policy will be
adopted to control fraud in the name of foreign employment.
While conducting an emergency monitoring of
the Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE) at Buddhanagar on Thursday, Minister
Shrestha said that a mechanism would be set up to provide timely justice to the
youth who were cheated and immediately rescue the workers stranded abroad.
Giving instructions to the department to
provide prompt service to the youth who have lodged complaints of fraud, he said
that legal constraints in providing timely justice would be resolved in a
timely manner.
The Minister said that those who have gone
for jobs abroad and stranded in foreign land would be rescued immediately, but
there is a tendency of not performing the task under various pretexts and
pleading with the government for rescue.
Minister Shrestha instructed the employees
of the DoFE to immediately inform the ministry if there were any problem while
working on behalf of the workers. Secretary of the ministry Ek Narayan Aryal
also directed to make the remaining services technology-friendly in order to
streamline the service flow.
According to him, the ministry is ready to
take the information like registration, renewal, limit of sending workers,
deposit amount, bank guarantee, action and lifting ban of the licensed manpower
company to the full-fledged online system.
Minister Shrestha pledged to reform the
mechanism to re-evaluate the bail amount based on the capacity of the manpower
to send workers abroad.
He instructed the employees of the
department to return the money to the workers by making quick use of the bank
guarantee maintained by the manpower even though the money could not be returned
to the complaint on the basis of the bail amount.
Minister Shrestha said that fraud has been
on the rise in the name of consultancy in recent times, and informed that the
practice would be controlled in coordination with the Ministry of Education and
other concerned agencies.
He said that the culprits will be brought
under the ambit of action to stop the malpractice after it was found that the
institutions opened with the approval of the Ministry of Education for
educational counseling services have been involved in foreign employment
business and extorting tens of million rupees.
A complaint has been lodged at the
department alleging that the operators of some educational consulting firms
have absconded by extorting millions of rupees with a promise to send people in
foreign employment.
Director General of the DoFE, Shesh Narayan
Poudel said that the department has recently filed a case against International
Expo and Travel Services, and Genius Education and Consultancy Services at the
Foreign Employment Tribunal as the two companies raised Rs. 45 million from 144
people.
Poudel said that three cases have been
filed at the tribunal out of the many organizations working in the name of
educational counseling. In the last month alone, a claim of Rs. 49.3 million
and a sum of Rs. 70 million including damages have been filed against an
educational consultancy, a travel agency and an individual.
During the monitoring, the Minister directed
to take immediate action against the complaint filed by Nishan Bagale, a
resident of Barpak Sulikot Rural Municipality-3, Gorkha.
Hari Sharan Khadka, a resident of
Budhanilkantha Municipality-6, Kathmandu had taken Rs. 1 million from Bagale
for sending him on a hotel job in Australia with a salary of $1000 a month.
The department has stated that it has
initiated action against Khadka.
Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 3 June 2022.
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