Average four-monthly departure figure of overseas jobseekers stood at 86,619 till the end of the first eight months of the current fiscal year, up from the government´s target of 84,700. [break]
During the last three months (mid-April to mid-June) of the second four-monthly period of the current fiscal year, the departure of overseas workers stood at 90,331, way ahead of the government´s target, states a report compiled by Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE).
“The annual target of sending workers has been fulfilled in the first eleven months of the current fiscal year due to impressing demands from overseas destinations mainly from Malaysia despite slackness in demands in the early months,” said Kumud Khanal, general secretary of Nepal Association of Foreign Employment Agencies (NAFEA).
Khanal said rapid economic recovery in labor destinations and waiver of levy imposed on migrant workers in Malaysia were the key factors behind the impressive growth in the demands for Nepali workers.
Manohar Khanal, director of DoFE, echoed Khanal and said encouraging demands from major labor destinations and restriction on Bangladeshi workers by the Malaysian government were the factors behind increasing departures of Nepali workers.
A total of 263,570 workers left for overseas destinations in the first 11 months of current fiscal year, higher than the government target of 254,100 workers. The departure figures in the first four months had fallen short of the target by 8,504.
The departures in the first and second four-monthly periods were recorded at 76,196 and 97,043 respectively.
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