Kathmandu, June 6: Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba has said that employment opportunities could be increased by bringing foreign investment in the country.
At a programme on ‘Foreign Employment and Poverty Alleviation’ organised here on Tuesday on the occasion of 93rd birth anniversary of Girija Prasad Koirala, President Deuba said that foreign investors are ready to invest in Nepal if the government could maintain peace, stability and security of investment in the country.
Stating that financial activities are taking place in the country due to remittance, he expressed concern over load shedding problem facing the people even though the country is rich in water resources.
Similarly, NC leader Dr Ram Sharan Mahat said that villages lack workers as around five million Nepalese are now in foreign employment. He further said that remittance has some 30 per cent contribution in gross domestic production and poverty has decreased in comparison due to this.
Another NC leader Mahesh Acharya said that there would be qualitative change in remittance sector within three to five years if professional and skill-oriented trainings could be provided to 75 per cent human resources going for overseas employment.
Former Vice-Chairman of the National Planning Commission, Prof Dr Govinda Pokharel, leader Ananda Prasad Dhungana and intellectual Hari Sharma stressed that the NC should bring a new policy in view of the welfare of those going for overseas employment. RSS
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