Why are the youth who are looking for opportunities in the country discouraged?

I also help at home by paying for the education expenses. But the neighbors' children might have gone abroad. My parents also thought that their son would have gone abroad.

Baishak 26, 2081

Deepak banjara

Why are the youth who are looking for opportunities in the country discouraged?

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The National Census 2078 showed that the population of the age group of 20 to 29 years is 17.9 percent. Is the government aware of the demographic imbalance that may appear with many socio-cultural problems in the future if such a large population in the productive age group wants to migrate abroad regardless of study or work visa, and if the psychology of the society and the household continue to pollute it in the same way?

The latest data of the Foreign Employment Department shows that an average of 3,000 young people leave Nepal every day in search of employment. Although there is no age group study of the migrating population, there is no doubt that the majority of them are between 20 and 29 years old. In this way, the discussion of the problems faced by the emigrating population in the destination country may be different.

It is too late for Nepal to think seriously about the problems that are emerging when sending young people abroad. Since the end of 2019, due to the global epidemic of Corona, people's foreign travel has been negligible for two years. Due to the protocols imposed in relation to Corona, there was almost a standstill to go for foreign employment from Nepal. But gradually after 2022, the world opened again . After Corona, the number of emigration from Nepal on study visa has increased.

In the financial year 2078/79, there were 114,000 people who took No Objection Letter (NOC) to study abroad, while in the last financial year 2079/80, 19,836 people took NOC. Most of them, about 34,000 young people went to Australia on a study visa. According to the latest data provided by the Ministry of Education, an average of 1,200 people take NOCs daily. Converting this figure to an annual average, it seems that NOC takers in the current financial year will reach around four lakh.

My Gorkha friend Mandeep was doing his graduation in Pokhara. He was studying by working in a travel company and was supporting his family by paying for his studies. He was happy as he was about to complete his studies.

But before his happiness there was an unbearable social and family pressure. Every time we reached home, we had to face one question - what will happen in Nepal with that much income? When will you go abroad? Can you get a job according to your studies?

The parents used to tell Mandeep the list of youths who had gone abroad. From Portugal, Romania, Croatia to Japan, Korea, the list was long.

Where does everything go only with your own happiness! Sometimes you have to be happy for yourself and sometimes for others. Mandeep also paid 10 lakh rupees to Dalal for Schengen visa after Baama's wish. The visa did not come, the money sank. In the same breach, Malta was attacked through another broker. After being unemployed for three months in Malta, he again paid a large sum of money to a broker and reached Portugal. Now he works as a farmer.

Mandeep is just an example of parents wanting their children to go abroad while the sons and daughters of the neighborhood are going abroad. 

I myself am not immune from this problem . I also help at home by paying for the education expenses. But the neighbors' children might have gone abroad. My parents also thought that their son would have gone abroad.

Last January, I went to the village on leave. But the question to me was the same from the family, now every parent has stopped daring that something can be done in the country.

Today, when two people meet, or from house to house, from street to street, from street to street, even in a formal gathering ceremony, it is the same thing that is heard abroad. Even in the headlines of the news, the topic 'Yati Videsie, Uti Videsie' seems to have got priority. Social networks are filled with photos and videos of young people standing in line at the airport. Day by day, such scenes and activities make you think and even when you are alone or in the middle of the night when you can't sleep, you start to create conflicts with your own mind. And many characters start to discourage those who are looking for possibilities like me to see if something can be done in the country. These are all over the country. Rather than looking at their progress and economic development with a neutral eye, our society gives a disappointing assessment that such and such a friend has gone abroad and has made such and such progress, while so and so is shaking in Nepal.

This also shows where our village society is going. And it forces you to think - is abroad synonymous with prosperity? Abroad is an option? Young and energetic age should be given away in a foreign land? Is it true that happiness and prosperity will not enter the family until they fly from the international airport carrying luggage? These things make the youth restless who are struggling with the situation to do something in their own country. Perhaps this is the height of despair.

This disappointing picture provided by the Department of Foreign Employment and the Ministry of Education, do not the rulers of this country read or are they not serious even if they know? Hence Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal's expression becomes relevant here.

In one occasion, he said some time ago, 'A young man who is working for 80 thousand in Nepal tries to escape even if he pays 80 lakh rupees.'

Can he avoid responsibility by giving such an expression? Because after the 2062/063 movement, Dahal is at the center of Nepal's power politics. He is equally responsible for not being able to create an environment for the young population to survive in the country after being in the center of power for almost two decades. Rather than quality education, job creation, reduction of corruption, enhancement of good governance, Satlipsa is at the center of leadership. How disappointing is the tendency of the leadership to send the people's children abroad for free even when they are asking for votes in the elections. They assure.

CPN (Unified Socialist) Chairman Madhav Kumar Nepal, who is also the former Prime Minister, made a speech in the last election when he reached home district Rautahat and Congress leader Arju Rana Deuba, who became a candidate from Kailali, is an example of this. Not only the people but also the leaders have the fascination of foreign countries. As the character and thinking of the leadership determines the mentality of the citizens, the leadership is ultimately responsible for the tendency of the youth to go abroad. It is certain that the issue of citizens will not be the priority of the leadership for a few more years due to the slippage of power.

Deepak

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