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Kathmandu Thursday August 31, 2000 Bhadra 15, 2057.
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Foreign job craze rising
By a Post Reporter
HETAUDA, Aug 30 - Local youths of Makwanpur district are thronging to the
district administration office even in this rainy season to procure passport and go to
foreign countries.
Earlier, passport was obtained only from the Foreign Ministry in Kathmandu.
This authority had been delegated to the district administration offices since Falgun 2054
BS with provision for recomendations from the DDC president or vice-president.
Makwanpur DDC President Rameswor Rana said they are busy in giving
recommendations almost every day except on holidays.
According to him, people from almost each of the 43 VDCs and one municipality
have gone abroad in search of job from this industrialist district which has been linked
with the capital and where many people can earn plenty of money by growing cash crops.
This is an indication of the vast number of youths going abroad, particularly from the
remote districts.
The largest number of people have left their homes from Bajrabarahi, Chitlang
and Padampokhari, having the highest literacy rate and highest income generation. Five to
10 people are recommended daily for passport and many of them are educated unemployed
people who prefer to go to Arab countries to working in their native villages.
About 2 thousand 500 people have already received passports from this
district.
Even some youths who own fertile land in the village and are capable of
earning good income also want to go abroad. Rana said he had persuaded many of them not to
seek passport and returned them without giving his recommendation.
Laxman Balami of Bajrabarahi VDC sold his two ropani land at the rate of 125
thousand rupees and gave the amount to Pradip Gurung, a manpower agent to send him to
Saudi Arabia but he has never seen the agent since that day. He has also spent another 10
thousand rupees trying in vain to locate him.
Arjun Lama of Tistung who was also trying to go abroad committed suicide
in Kathmandu because his parents did not sell the land to fulfil his wish to go
abroad.
Gopi Devkota of Hetauda municipality was employed in the local
cooperative office in front of his house. Wishing to earn fabulous amount of wealth he
went to Qatar after selling all the land he had. Before he could complete one month
in Qatar, he died there leaving behind all his family members to fend for themselves with
no property at their disposal.
Even his last rites had to be performed by their family through donations
collected with neighbours and at the local market.
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