The interaction took place at Padma Kanya Campus at Bag Bazaar.
Mahendra Pandey, President of Pravasi Nepali Coordination Committee, started the interaction with his paper presentation on youth migration and its effects on the development of the country. According to Pandey, 1,500 young people on average migrate for work everyday, and out of the 100 who come back home, 77 want to go back again.[break]
“While there is remittance money and cool gadgets that come as part of working abroad, there are innumerable challenges that these youth have to meet. It also comes at the cost of significant social loss. Our farmlands are fallow or very little work is being done there because of no young people to work on the farms,” he said.
Those present at the meet shared their views on the possible solutions that the government could opt for. Solutions like starting a new education curriculum based on the natural resources in the country and focusing the remittances on the development of the country were discussed.
It was followed by an interaction with Giles Thompson, Director, South Asia at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and Andrew James Sparkes, British Ambassador to Nepal.
They talked about the importance of education and student politics, but not at the cost of hampering education. On working to provide job opportunities for Nepali youth in Nepal and stopping migration for work, Ambassador Sparkes said, “We want to work for you along with you to make sure that this isn’t your future.”
Thompson also stated that the British Government wants to see less strikes in Nepal so that there is an environment for progress and work.
“We’re also trying to encourage British companies to invest in Nepal and hence create job opportunities,” he said.
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