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Chiranjeevee Pokhrelm For DCnepal, March 20 2016 - The foreign employment agents – who shutdown manpower offices protesting a police onslaught on their deceitful activities – have now diverted their attention to use the opportunity in hand to push for amending the provision for free visa and tickets to migrant workers.  A team deputed from the Metropolitan Police Crime Division on February 24 carried out raids in at least 18 manpower offices and arrested some owners. The manpower companies shutdown their offices on March 6 in protest, but now their context has changed.

The manpower agents shutdown their businesses under the pretext of police crossing over its jurisdiction, but now they have disinterred an old dispute and demanded correcting decisions taken by Mr. Tek Bahadur Gurung, the then State Minister for Labour and Employment.  The same agents are demanding a correction of the decision taken on July 5 to provide cost-free visas and tickets to the aspiring migrant workers.

The manpower companies, during agitation, are even making effort to influence the International Relations and Labour Committee under the Legislature-Parliament to achieve their objectives.  Lawmakers expressed support for reviewing the provision. On the occasion, Mr. Bimal Dhakal, Nepal Association of Foreign Employment Agencies (NAFEA) Chairman called for raising the amount received from a migrant worker to Rs 20,000 if not a month’s salary.


Here, manpower companies’ condition is also not good. After manpower companies closed the services to protest against police’s such unnecessary interference in their business, this them it has been somehow compulsion to open stop the protest, according to Manpower Association’s President Bimal Dhakal.