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Category: Sudurpashchim Province

  • Provincial Labor Advisory Council will be formed in Far West

    Provincial Labor Advisory Council will be formed in Far West

    Dhangadhi: A Provincial Labor Advisory Council will be formed in Far Western Province as well. According to the provisions of the Labor Act 2074, the said committee is going to be formed at the provincial level under the Central Advisory Council.

    In accordance with the facilities provided by the Labor Act 2074 given by the Constitution, the Provincial Labor Advisory Council will be formed with the chairman of the Minister of the Ministry of Social Development, the member secretary of the Ministry of Social Development and the secretary of the Ministry of Social Development. Hari Paudel, Assistant Director of Nepal Confederation of Commerce and Industry informed that there is a system to keep one/one member from other ministries related to labor and to nominate necessary members from among the remaining officials of Federation of Commerce and Industry of Nepal.

    In the same way, the Provincial Labor Advisory Council will discuss and put the decisions made through discussion before the government for the solution of the problems of labor, workers and industry, or even put the workers, employers and the government together to discuss and discuss their ideas and play a special role in solving their problems. Poudel said that in addition to being able to form a committee, there is also a provision to reconstitute the said committee every two years.

    On the same topic, on Wednesday, the organization of the International Labor Organization, the Central Committee of the Federation of Nepal Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the joint coordination of the Federation of Nepal Chamber of Commerce and Industry Sudurpaschim Province, a tripartite dialogue program for the establishment and implementation of a social dialogue mechanism at the Sudurpaschim Province level, also discussed the efforts and achievements to promote social dialogue. was done It was chaired by the vice president of Sudurpaschim Province Confederation of Industry and Commerce, while the chief guest was the secretary of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Law. Narayan Regmi was there.

  • Sudurpaschim government overwhelmed with unemployment benefit applications

    Sudurpaschim government overwhelmed with unemployment benefit applications

    DHANGADI: The Agriculture and Livestock Special Program being implemented in the Sudurpaschim province has received more than the expected number of applications.

    The province government has brought this program targeting the COVID-19 affected people. The Ministry of Land Management, Agriculture and Cooperatives, which is implementing the program, is in dilemma how to address the sheer number of applicants.

    It is said nearly 82 thousand people presented letters of intent in response to a notice calling for applications from people affected by COVID-19 and those returning from abroad. The program is aimed at making foreign-returnees who have lost their job due to COVID-19 self-employed.

    The Ministry had issued a notice two months back calling for submitting letter of intent from those interested in the program.

    Ministry’s senior agriculture extension officer Gokul Prasad Bohara said that it would be difficult to address all the applicants considering the size of the budget allocated for the program and the overwhelming number of those who have presented their letter of intent for the program.

    The selected applicants would be provided with financial incentives in various installments.

    “We are going to select the applicants through on-site study and evaluation by taking into account all the aspects including the technical feasibility of the proposed enterprise. The number of applications might decrease after the proposals are selected strictly on the set standard,” Bohara said.

    According to him, the Agriculture Knowledge Center and Livestock expert Center in all the districts in the province have been given the authorization of the budget allocated for the program.

    Six million rupees has been earmarked towards agriculture and Rs 18 million towards livestock in Kailali district alone. Nearly 14 thousand applications have been received for the program in Kailali district. However, only 200 applications and proposals can be included in the program given the size of the allocated budget and the standards set for the program.

    Under the Agriculture program are included enterprises as vegetable, mushroom and fruit farming, and apiculture while under the Livestock Program are included enterprises as goat and sheep rearing, pig and cattle farming, fishery and poultry keeping.

    The Program aims to make nearly 9,000 families self-employed throughout the province. The province government has allotted Rs 150 for the Program in the current fiscal year. -Khabarhub