Uma Kant Acharya, Director General of the Department of Labour and Occupation Safety, informed that the number of people seeking labour permits and their renewal rose as the mega projects in Nepal began to restart after the COVID crisis seemed over.
Local levels in Tanahun district has launched the issuance of labour permit, relieving service seekers of hassles in visiting city areas for the service.
to foreign employment aspirants and they need not wait at the labour office for long. At present, the government has been issuing labour permit from the labour offices in all the seven states.
KATHMANDU, Jan 15: The Department of Foreign Employment, Kathmandu, is preparing to issue labour re-permit online to aspiring Nepali migrant workers from Sunday.
The Department, which had been issuing the labour permit through both medium—physical presence and online, is going to issue re-permit only online.
Minister for Labour, Employment and Social Security, Krishna Kumar Shrestha, said that the arrangement made for labour re-permit online has ended the compulsion of Nepali workers, who have come to their homes from foreign employment, to wait in line for hours at the Department of Foreign Employment to get their labour permit again.
Secretary at the Ministry, Ek Narayan Aryal, said that the government would make this arrangement in order to provide service in an easy and smooth manner making labour permits 'paperless'.
Similarly, Chief Ramesh Aryal shared that activities related to labour re-permit are going to be carried only online to provide services in an easy, smooth, fast and transparent manner making the labour permit 'faceless, paperless and cashless.
Following the directive of the Labour Ministry to provide services to Nepali migrant workers in an easy and smooth manner using modern technology, the Department of Foreign Employment is going to issue labour re-permit online, he added.