The board forwarded its recommendation to the Ministry of Labor and Transport Management for implementation.
Citing insecurity for Nepali workers due to escalating violence inside Lebanon and neighboring countries, the government had suspended the process of granting permission to work in Lebanon from Dec 28, 2008.
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“We made the recommendation as we found no security threat to Nepali workers in Lebanon. However, we will take strict measures to discourage job aspirants from going for overseas jobs through personal contact by using Indian soil,” Mahesh Adhikari, under secretary at the board told myrepublica.com.
Adhikari said most of the overseas workers who managed to find foreign employment through individual brokers and used foreign land are in trouble in labor destinations.
Although the Foreign Employment Act has made it mandatory that Nepali workers use their own country’s airport to fly out for foreign job destinations, a huge number of job-seekers are making their way to the job market through Indian cities such as Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai.
During the fiscal year 2007/08, a total 1,530 Nepali workers left for Lebanon, where a total of more than 15,000 Nepalis are estimated to be working mostly within the construction industry, private houses and the service sector.
Data compiled by DoLEP indicates around 1,000 workers reached Lebanon during the first seven months of the current fiscal year 2008/09.
The government has stopped granting permission for women to work in Saudi Arabia and Malaysia, the second and fourth largest destinations for Nepali workers respectively, citing reasons relating to insecurity and exploitation.
A total of 239,617 Nepali workers left for various overseas countries during the last fiscal year.
Four million-strong in its population, Lebanon has employed an estimated 200,000 migrant domestics, mainly from the Philippines, Ethiopia and some South Asian countries.
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