According to the Ministry of Labor and Transport Management (MoLTM), selected interns would have to undergo training on grammar of Japanese language, hearing and conversation, basic occupational terminology and understanding about Japanese culture and Japanese food during the specified training hours. [break]
As per the training schedule, the candidates will have to participate 60 days (90 hours) of training for grammar on Japanese language, including writing and reading, with 40 percent and 60 percent of teaching hours separated for theory and practical respectively. Hearing and conversation training will cover 90 hours (60 days) for speaking, listening and conversation with 30 percent and 70 percent hours separated for theory and practical respectively.
Similarly, the candidates will also have to take training on basic occupational terminology for six hours or three days, understanding about Japanese culture for 30 hours or 10 days and understanding about Japanese food for three hours or a day.
“The MoLTM has formed a technical committee to fix the contents of the course for the language training,” Purna Chandra Bhattarai, joint secretary at the MoLTM, told myrepublica.com on Saturday. According to Bhattarai, the technical penal -- led by Sthaneshwar Devkota, executive director of Foreign Employment Promotion Board (FEPB) - has representatives from Japanese language training institutes, language instructors, Nepali Alumnae of Japan and Japanese Embassy in Nepal as members.
Selected candidates will also have to undergo job-related training for a month in Japan so that they can better communicate with their colleagues at workplaces, said Bhattarai.
Devkota said the course contents will be designed on the basis of the content already prepared by Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI).
“We will devise the content within seven or 10 days,” Devkota said.
The ministry also said that language training institutions could have more than 10 to 12 trainees in a class at one time. The language instructors have to pass second level of Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT). The MoLTM has fixed the language training fee at Rs 7,000 per person.
Officials said the training is a must to obtain final approval for JITCO internship once the candidates are selected for their respective organizations in Nepal.
A technical team from JITCO, which is visiting Nepal in the first week of February, will provide information to Nepali officials and designated manpower agencies about the process and system for sending industrial trainees to Japan.
MoLTM had issued guidelines on Industrial Training Program (ITP) or Technical Internship Program (TIP) under the JITCO agreement, which was signed between Nepal and JITCO in 2003, on December 3.
The government has designated a total 172 agencies to send workers to Japan under the JITCO program through which Japan receives industrial workers from 15 countries.
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