The program is expected to cover around 106, 872 unemployed Nepalis waiting for job opportunities across the local units.

The government has allotted a total of NPR 2.36 billion budget for this program.

In this regard, each local government body has already received a minimum NPR 500,000-10 million for job creation to all the unemployed locals.

Now, the target for the local units is to ensure jobs for 106,872 unemployed for 30 days in the next two months period.

This decision comes in line with the government’s ‘minimum employment program’, which it has planned to include in the ongoing policies and programs, and the FY 2019-20 Budget.

8,000 Vacancies for PSC

The Nepal Government is working extensively to create more and more job opportunities for its unemployed population.

Adding to the government’s efforts of conducting a series of targeted programs, the Public Service Commission (PSC) is preparing to announce vacancies for 8,000 posts in the first phase on May 29, 2019.

Vacancies for the posts will be announced in the fourth, fifth, sixth and ninth positions in both technical and non-technical categories.

The commission’s move comes in response to the uncertainty related to the recruitment of government staffers.

Meanwhile, the government is also coming up with a special youth program worth NPR 1 Bn for the coming fiscal year.

Hope the efforts of this kind will start addressing the gaps in the employment sector of Nepal.

Also Read:

• Nepal Prepares to Fill 11400 Govt Job Vacancies

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Because of the boom in banking and other related sectors, majority of Nepali students are shifting their focus towards management courses away from regular educational courses.

According to Nepal UGC, management courses comprise of around 1.5 lakh applications out of the total 3.6 lakh enrolments at the university level in the country.

Master’s in Business Studies and MBA are among the top career preferences at the master’s level, currently.

Although renowned varsities like Tribhuvan University had courses like M.Com since 1960s, MBA degree courses that came later somewhere in around 1993 are gaining more attention.

Kathmandu University introduced MBA degree course in 1993, following which, demand for the course increased pushing many other colleges to introduce in their curriculum.

And, many investors have been keen about offering such courses in affiliation with foreign universities, along with local universities.

While there are around 37 colleges in total offering the MBA degree, 16 stand affiliated to foreign universities in USA, UK, India and Malaysia.

Human Resource, A Serious Concern
College managers argue that the increasing inclination among students towards MBA degree is encouraging, but proper availability of human resource is compulsory to ensure quality education.

According to them, colleges should be granted licenses based on their human resource availability.

“One should be very clear, along with knowledge a MBA student must have problem-solving skill once s/he graduates. I regret to say not all colleges fulfil this standard,” says Tribhuvan University Management Dean Dilli Ram Sharma.

Sharma, based on his inspection, says that many colleges lack full-time faculty making it difficult for after-class consultation. “This does not mean there aren’t excellent colleges here. Many colleges are truly doing well,” adds Sharma.

Another major issue is the enrolment of fresher/inexperienced students for the course and lack of internship programs for students.

Meanwhile, South Asian Institute of Management Principal Ashok Raj Pandey feels that the entire education system in Nepal is currently examination-focused.

While MBA students pursue hundreds of cases during their course in universities like Harvard, MBA students in Nepal complete their course without studying at least some dozen courses, resulting in degree lacking required skill-set.

Lack of Academia-Industry Collaboration
This is another serious problem in Nepali education structure.

College managements report that the academia has failed to establish proper linking with the country’s leading industry bodies such as Federation of Nepali Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI), Confederation of Nepali Industries (CNI) and Nepal Chamber of Commerce (NCC), among others.

“The production of graduates should be based on the need of the market, but we have failed to internalize this crucial fact,” admits Pankaj Jalan, Chairman of Lord Buddha Education Foundation.

So, the government has to approve academic institutions based on their human resource requirements.

Following recommendations from various institutions, the Ministry of Education has already formed a panel in coordination with the National Planning Commission (NPC) to fill human resource gaps in various sectors, Jalan informed.

The panel is currently studying various aspects of the matter and is expected to come up with the number of human resource requirements that the country needs in different fields over the next 25 years.

Factors to be analyzed part of the study include current situation of human resources, number of graduates in different sectors and employment prospects, among others.

Hope the study will fill the gaps in the country’s education sector and pave ways for quality education and sufficient opportunities.

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Given this fact, the country has always been open for wide range of opportunities, investment and proposals from foreign nations. All is to ensure better livelihood and career opportunities for its young citizens!

This wish of the Himalayan Nation is growing in size with the reported rise in number of its youngsters leaving the country for career opportunities abroad.

See:

• Nepal, Fifth Largest Foreign Community to Receive US H-1B Visa
• Nepali Students Across Foreign Varsities on Rise
• Nepali Youth Migration for Foreign Employment on Rise

Now, local development and generating employment locally remain to be two key agendas of the Nepal Government to provide an alternative to the rising number of migrants leaving for foreign destinations.

Towards this end, the government has already announced plans for local skill development and employment laws in a move to ensure more opportunities for Nepali citizens, especially youth.

Besides, Nepal as a fast-developing country, also presents scope for enormous employment opportunities across its various sectors including government and private sectors undergoing fast-paced development.

Some of the key high-potential public sector areas offering larger scope for youth employment and career opportunities in Nepal, through their ongoing development, in the current scenario include:

• Hydropower
• Transport Infrastructure
• Civil Infrastructure
• Agriculture
• Industrial Sector
• Logistics & Services
• Public Policy
• Digital Governance
• Local-level groups such as District Health Groups, Community Welfare Centers, etc.,
• Think-tanks and various other local, provincial and central government departments

Aforementioned are some areas undergoing fast-paced development with both government and private sector participation.

Coming to other side of the Nepali society, there are also fast-paced private career opportunities stemming up across the country. Some of the encouraging trends showcasing high employment scope for Nepali youth in other areas, other than public sector, include:

• Start-up Culture & SME Growth
• Entrepreneurship
• Rise of Dynamic Enterprises
• Rise in technology adoption and increasing IT firms
• Openness to pursue new talents
• Increasing business investment in new and existing ventures (as part of expansion)
• Changing societal trends and thinking patterns
• Rising remittance flows

As the reports say, there is a high rate of demand for government jobs among youth from provinces. According to the Public Service Commission (PSC), job applicants to the department has increased almost six-fold in a decade period. The Department’s 59^th Annual Report puts Province 2 on the top of other provinces for such jobs.

Besides aforementioned opportunities that come as official notifications or via mouth talk, there might also be some good opportunities that can go unnoticed. As a solution to this, a good number of job portals in Nepal are operating on a regular basis looking every nook and corner of the country to keep the citizens informed about every new job opportunity along with offering them career counselling solutions.

Here are some of the top job portal and career counselling portals:

• Merojob
• Jobs Nepal
• RamroJob
• Kantipur Job
• Mero Rojgari
• Kumari Jobs

What World Bank Says?
In its report titled ‘Jobless Growth?’, the World Bank reports that Nepal needs to create more jobs to meet the employment needs of the gradually-growing working age population. “Every month, the working age population increases by 35,000 people and Nepal must create 286,900 jobs a year to maintain its employment rate,” reads WB report.

“Providing opportunities to these young entrants while attracting more women into the labor market will require generating even more jobs for every point of economic growth,” says Martin Rama, World Bank South Asia Region Chief Economist.

Government Efforts Underway!
Nepal Government has been making its efforts to address the situation in multiple ways.

Event the Budget FY 2018-19 has also dwelled more on creating sufficient job opportunities locally. Skill development is one step in the process that the Ministry of Labor has already announced as a measure to retain more local talents from going abroad to most-sought destinations such as Malaysia, Singapore, UAE, Australia, etc.

It’s alarming that around 512,000 youth leave the local market for foreign job opportunities, annually!

According to International Labor Organization, 63.7 percent of Nepal’s overall population are aged below 30 years and 19.2 percent of the youth in the age group of 15-29 years are facing unemployment.

Hope the ongoing developing and upcoming projects would provide needed scope for Nepali youth to earn their livelihood, locally, thus contributing to the homeland development.

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Interview by Savina Xavier

Nepal’s rapid development is proof of initiatives at the grass-root level. NGOs at Nepal are drivers of such change, their constant efforts have fueled progress in uplifting the marginalized and poorest of poor in the country.

Back to Life (Back-to-life.org), Nepal is one such organization that has been working to improve health care, infrastructure, education, skill sets and human resource (HR) engagement in the provisions of such services.

It has been successful in engaging key stakeholders in delivering its services and has made considerable progress in reducing maternal, neonatal and infant mortality rates.

Talking about the future of Nepal, it says that the country has a lot of scope and that it is on the right track in terms of development.

It identifies the youth of Nepal as instrumental in the process of taking Nepal to greater heights. The organization believes that Nepali youth have very useful skill sets that can be tapped by the Nepal Government through creation of inbound opportunities.

Nepali Sansar finds it pleasure in interacting with ‘Back-to-Life’, which shares its experiences of working in Nepal and being part of the country’s development. Here are some excerpts from the interview:

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In its recent report titled ‘Jobless Growth?’, WB recommended a rise in job creation for Nepal to meet the employment needs of the gradually-growing working age population.

“Every month, the working age population increases by 35,000 people and Nepal must create 286,900 jobs a year to maintain its employment rate,” WB said in its report.

While WB projected Nepal’s GDP growth at 4.6 percent in 2018, “providing opportunities to these young entrants while attracting more women into the labor market, will require generating even more jobs for every point of economic growth,” says Martin Rama, World Bank South Asia Region Chief Economist citing to the growing working age (youth) population in South Asia through 2025.

Stating that the growth rebound is inconsistent across economies, the report noted that the exports remain weak despite the accelerating global growth and trade.

However, a slow recovery was observed in case of Nepal.

“Nepal has seen an economic recovery after disruptions from earthquakes and a trade blockade, but growth is expected to slow from 7.5 percent in fiscal year 2017 to 4.6 percent in 2018 due to the heaviest floods in decades combined with slow recovery of exports, slowdown in remittances, and an increase in lending rates,” the report added.

Case of South Asia

WB’s twice-a-year South Asia Economic Focus (SAEF) report made these observations as part of its assessment on the overall growth of South Asia.

According to Martin, “more than 1.8 million young people will reach working age every month in South Asia through 2025 and the good news is that economic growth is creating jobs in the region.”

To control the gaps in employment rate, the report urged South Asian economies to create a minimum of 1.17 million jobs a year.

“Growth is important, but even very high growth will alone not be enough to increase South Asia’s employment rate. Policies and actions are needed to make growth more labor-intensive, and especially to create the kinds of jobs that can encourage greater labor force participation by women,” says Robert Beyer, the report author.

Status of Employment in Nepal

Over the years, there has been a growing trend of inclination for foreign employment among Nepali working age population, especially the youth, due to the lack of employment opportunities locally.

As a result, Nepali working population have been migrating to the foreign destinations such as Malaysia, Singapore and Gulf countries, majorly. The first eight months of the current fiscal saw at least 1,026 migrants per day to various overseas labor destinations.

However, there is also a declining trend being observed over the last two fiscals with regard to overseas labor migration. This trend is encouraging the need for creation of more jobs, locally.

The Economic Survey of the Ministry of Finance was quoted to have reported the addition of a minimum 512,000 youth population to the Nepali labor market, annually.

While the number of new entrants to the Nepali labor market stands at more than 42,000 people per month in the last fiscal, the number is expected to grow further in the coming years owing to the declining dependency ratios.

The International Labor Organization (ILO) calls Nepal a young country with 63.7 percent of the country’s overall population (26.5 million) aged below 30 years.

However, when it comes to the employment, the unemployment rate among youth aged 15-29 years stands at 19.2 percent compared to 2.7 percent for the whole population.

“Over 400,000 young people are estimated to enter the labor force every year. These figures indicate the quantitative dimension of the employment challenge in Nepal,” says ILO.

Basic employment-related challenges in Nepal are attributed to the predominance of employment in the informal segments of the Nepali economy with low productivity and earnings, and poor working conditions, resulting in underemployment in the country.

Higher incomes and dignity of labor are among other aspects contributing to the rise in migration for foreign employment.

As a Solution: The Government of Nepal had on many occasions urged ILO for its support to enhance job opportunities within the country. Towards this end, ILO worked with the Nepali Government in developing a comprehensive national Employment Policy and is also assisting towards the effective implementation of the same with special focus on informal economy, social protection and youth employment. To monitor the changing trends, ILO is working in collaboration with the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) of Nepal to develop employment monitoring and evaluation tools. The organization has also extended its technical support for the labor market reform in the country resulting in a modified labor bill. This has further moved Nepali Ministry of Labor to bolster the public employment services thus contributing to the possible rise in employability across the country.

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