In an attempt to explore new labor destinations for ever increasing number of unemployed youths, Nepal had on Feb 11 proposed to the North African nation to send more Nepali workers and offered to sign an MoU on manpower.
“WON -- a Korean Construction Company has already forwarded demand for more than 2,000 Nepali workers to work in multibillion-dollar- infrastructure projects in Libya,” said Som Lal Bataju, vice-president of Nepal Association of Foreign Employment Agents.
A total of 244 Nepali job seekers had left for Libya during the fiscal year 2007/08.
He also informed that some 150 workers are in the process of leaving for Libya. About half a dozen Nepali manpower agents have received demand for construction workers in Libya.
“We have received demand for some 300 workers from WON Construction Company to work in Libya,” said Bataju, who is also the proprietor of SOS overseas in Gongabu, Kathmandu.
Manpower firms concerned have approached the Ministry of Labor and Transport Management seeking permission to send workers to Libya.
“Nepali recruiting agents have assured that Nepali workers would get wages between US$175 and US$250 excluding overtime benefits in Libya,” Yubraj Pandey, secretary at the MoLTM told myrepublica.com.
“Considering the growing job opportunities in Libya, we are ready to sign pact with Libya on labor and are waiting for their response”, added Pandey.
To cater to its 130 billion-dollar-infrastructure projects Libya is planning to employ about one million foreign workers -- especially blue-collar – within the next five years.
Libyan economy is based primarily upon oil revenues that constitute about one-quarter of its GDP.
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