Labor, Employment and Social Security Minister Gokarna Bista urges international organizations to make their role more effective regarding foreign employment

November 14: Minister for Labour, Employment and Social Security, Gokarna Bista has urged the international organizations to make their role more effective regarding the provision of sending the laborers on foreign employment at zero investment implemented in the labor supplying countries.

Minster Bista said this during a meeting with the International Organization for Migration (IOM)’s Asia and Pacific Region regional director Dr Maria Nenette Motus on Wednesday.

The IOM official had paid a courtesy call on the Labour Minister at his office in Singha Durbar. On the occasion, Minister Bista said that workers were suffering many difficulties due to the unhealthy competition in the labour supply.

He urged the IOM to work with determination to have the provision of the employers themselves bearing all the expenses to sending the labourers implemented in letter and spirit.

Saying there was need of minimum standard for systematizing the labour recruiting process, Minister Bista suggested that IOM could play significant role in formulating such standards.