The Nepali government has formally expressed its readiness to send Nepali workers to Japan, local media reported on Saturday.
According to Shyam Prasad Mainali, secretary of the Ministry of Labor, the government has recently sent a letter to the Japanese government and the Japan International Training Cooperation Organization (JITCO) stating Nepal's interest in exporting labor to the largest economy in Asia.
"We accepted the Japanese proposal to recruit Nepali workers and forwarded the letter to the Japanese government and JITCO through our mission in Japan," Mainali told a leading website eKantipur.com.
In the first week of January 2008, the government started diplomatic efforts to send Nepali jobseekers with varying qualifications -- ranging from highly skilled to semi-skilled to Japan, the report said.
Nepal's ambassador to Japan Ganesh Yonjan had requested Labor Ministry officials to send a formal letter of approval to the Japanese authorities about the recruitment of Nepali workers in different Japanese industrial enterprises following the green signal from JITCO.
Last September, JITCO officials had visited Nepal and inspected different government and private vocational training centers.
Japan plans to hire 1.3 million foreign workers from 16 different countries including Nepal, China, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Myanmar and Peru, according to the report.
Only a small number of Nepali workers have managed to find employment in Japan on their own for lack of a labor agreement between the two countries.
According to the data of the Department of Labor, only 147 Nepalis left to work in the most developed Asian economy in the first seven months of the current fiscal year 2007/08 ending in mid-July. Japanese agricultural farms and industry absorb most of the skilled and semi-skilled foreign workers.
Source: Xinhua
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