According to the school, 37 secondary level students have already made passports to fly abroad for employment. [break]“As many as 144 students have left the school in the ongoing session. Of them, 35 have already made their passport to go overseas,” said school principal Yam Bahadur Kayat. He also informed that underage students have also been applying for passports by claiming to be older.
Mahesh Bhandari, a ninth grader at the school, recently quit the school before the second term examinations to fly abroad. “If we study to earn money, why not start earning money now?” asked Bhandari.
Pramod Adai, a 10th grader, had also flown abroad a few years ago for employment “We spent Rs 80,000 to send him abroad. He is neither in our contact nor has sent home money,” said Adai´s father Karma Bahadur.
Bobang village is inhabited by dalits and people from indigenous communities. Most of them have embraced overseas jobs for livelihood.
Sharing about his hardship abroad, Manohar BK said, “I had thought that I would made good money in Qatar but I didn´t. I was paid a monthly salary of Rs 25,000 after working for 15 hours a day. I regretted having quit studies after I came to know the educated ones were handsomely paid.”
“Some of the youths have left under pressure from family members, while others have chosen foreign employment on their own,” said Adhikarichaur VDC secretary Lok Bahadur Kuwar.
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