Purna Chandra Bhattarai, joint secretary at the Ministry of Labor and Transport Management (MoLTM) told myrepublica.com that the MoLTM took the decision to enlist Uganda as the latest labor destination considering the high prospect of employment opportunity in tourism and service sectors of Uganda which has been limping back to peace after years of civil war. [break]
“We have also given permission to a manpower agency to send skilled workers to Uganda,” said Bhattarai.
The government has already listed 107 countries across the world as labor destinations to send workers. Major players of Ugandan´s 15 billion-dollar economy are service, industry and agriculture that have been contributing 52 percent, 25 percent and 23 percent respectively in total Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Subas Vijay Associates, a Nepali manpower agency has brought in an offer for 40 high skilled workers from Ugandan capital Kampala-based Crane Bank and got prior-approval to recruit workers from Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE) following MoLTM´s decision.
According to DoFE´s data, no Nepali workers have reached the East African nation through government channel since about one-and-a-half decade.
The manpower company is recruiting five Sous chefs, three accountants, five executive chefs, seven front office managers, three charter accountants, seven duty managers, five food and beverage managers, five housekeeping executives with the offers ranging from US 1200 to US $ 2000 per month under two-year contract.
“We have initiated process of selecting the workers for the jobs and hopefully, we will complete the process within a month. We are also inviting employers from Uganda to have direct contact between employers and the job seekers,” said BN Parajuli, proprietor of Subas Vijay Associates.
Parajuli said prospect of job opportunity in service sector -- mainly banking and tourism --is very high as the once war-torn nation has achieved rapid economic growth after peace was restored in the country.
“Mostly, Indian and Chinese multinational companies in Uganda are recruiting large number of migrant workers to fulfill the increasing demands for highly skilled workers in the service sector which is mainly dominated by banking and tourism,” said Parajuli.
Kumud Khanal, general secretary of the Nepal Association of Foreign Employment Agencies, said amid high dependency of Nepalis on blue-collar jobs abroad, demands for highly skilled workers facilitate further exploration of such white collar jobs.
“Not only from Uganda, some other countries have also placed demands for highly skilled workers. However, we are lacking such white collar workers to fulfill the demand,” said Khanal. According to manpower agencies, more than 90 percent Nepali workers employed in overseas jobs are unskilled.
prabhakar@myrepublica.com
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