A huge number of Nepalese workers go abroad to work in the absence of fruitful local employment opportunities.
Migration is nothing new to Nepal, and the total stock of Nepalese nationals working overseas (excluding about one million in India) in different capacities is estimated to be about half a million (ILO-DFID 2002).
So far in the Nepalese context, foreign labour occupation has developed as an emerging business. But the business has not remained a dignified profession at all.
The reports about irregularities in foreign labour migration and problems faced by potential labour migrants before and after their departure for foreign employment are not properly addressed at the policy level.
A migrant worker has to face numerous problems while he/she makes the decision to migrate for foreign employment. Most of the migrant workers are taking a blind decision to migrate for work without any consideration of actual income that he/she will receive in the country of destination. Similarly, he/she has to face the problem of finding sufficient money to go abroad and the only way to get money is through a loan with a high interest rate.
The government, except some cases, does not offer special provisions to subsidize loan interest rates.
