Nepal Updates

1.35 billion rupees for employment fund.

Kathmandu, 1^st March.  

Aid agencies of Switzerland and England Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and Department for International Development (DFID) respectively, situated in Nepal has established an employment fund of nine million pound (almost 1.35 billion Nepali rupees). They have decided to spend the sum of money to provide job security to forty-eight thousand Nepalese in four year period time.

The program will focus to the maximum literate young people of rural areas who will be provided a minimum of four month of technical training. The training will be on forty different areas including driving, beautician, cook, wielder, carpenter etc. There will be a job guarantee for the trainee and they even have freedom to do any other work or to go abroad for a work. After the training they will be provided a certificate of diploma equivalent to CTEVT.

DFID and SDC will provide all the funds and responsibilities to another Swiss organization called Helvetas. This organization will have to provide training to 12,000 young people for four years. The program will be started from the month of March this year.

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