Kathmandu, April 12

The Foreign Employment Board (FEB) has initiated the reintegration programme for the returnee Nepali migrant workers in coordination with the local levels.

The board is implementing this project for the first time, for which it placed a separate directive to launch the project.

The board said that the programme has been implemented by sharing cost with various local levels to help returnee migrant workers become entrepreneurs.

Agreement has been inked with 81 local levels in all seven provinces to implement the programme, shared Rama Bhattarai, director of the Foreign Employment Board.

A total of 21 local levels in Bag-mati Province, 16 in Madhesh Province, 13 in Koshi Province, 14 in Gandaki Province and altogether 18 in Lumbini Province and Sudurpaschim Province have signed agreement with the board for the project.

The board is hopeful that estimated 3,000 returnee migrant workers would be benefited by the programme. The board has allocated a budget of more than Rs 150 million for the project in the current fiscal year 2022-23.

Of the proposals submitted by the local levels along with the programmes according to their needs and aspirations, the board said that agreement was made that the local levels expressing interest to implement this programme would do so by adding 50 per cent of the amount allocated by the board.

A version of this article appears in the print on April 13, 2023, of The Himalayan Times.