The Foreign Employment Department has sent a letter to the manpower company within 15 days to submit the details of whether they have been sent or not sent to the workers in accordance with the provisions of free visa and free ticket. The department has sent a letter on Monday to submit the details for the financial year 2080/81. The department has requested details from the manpower company including the country of destination, employer organization, name of the worker, contact number, job and salary.

Director General of the Department Danduraj Ghimire said that he has requested details to see the status of implementation of free visa and free tickets. "We don't have the details of which manpower company sent workers on free visas and free tickets," said Ghimire Studies have shown. In the first few years of implementation of this policy, although it seems that the service fee has been reduced, the receipt of 10,000 from the manpower company is still being collected up to 300,000.

Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Security Dol Prasad Aryal has claimed that Manpower Company has taken Rs. However, no action has been taken against the manpower company that collects arbitrary amount in that way. In the current year, nearly two lakh new labor permits have been taken. 

In the labor agreements and understandings that Nepal has made with Jordan, Mauritius, Malaysia and UAE, the principle of 'the employer should bear the enrollment fee' has been arranged. Bilateral labor agreements and understandings with other countries do not provide for the employer to bear the enrollment fee. Even in countries with agreements, the employer does not bear the service charge, visa and ticket fees of the workers. 

A national survey conducted by the Center for the Study of Labor and Mobility (SESLAM) in 2077 and another study conducted in Koshi Province in 2078 showed that the service fee to be paid for foreign employment is increasing year by year. When Seslam studied the year in which the free visa free ticket was adopted, it was found that before 2072, the sardar was paid as much as 1 lakh 10 thousand, but in 2076, it was found to have paid about 1.5 lakh on average. In recent years, this fee has further increased to around 3 lakhs. 

Rajendra Bhandari, President of Nepal Foreign Employment Professionals Association, said that the policy of free visa and free ticket is not practical. According to him, there is no reason for the department to ask the manpower professionals for details about this. After we submit all the details, the labor permit will be issued. As all our details are with the department, there is no reason to demand more," he said. 

He claimed that the government is discouraging businessmen by not reviewing this policy. The government itself collects about one lakh rupees when it sends workers to Korea. But the businessman says to send zero custom. That is not possible," he said. "We cannot send everyone to zero customs. Can be sent to multinational companies at zero cost. Because they pay to send workers. But others don't. How can we businessmen pay money when the employer does not pay the money?' 

He said that minimum fees should be set to prevent fraud on workers and to make businessmen responsible. "We have said that even if we arrange for the first month's salary of the workers to be taken as service fee. But now the policy is not clear," he said. "He himself is saying that it is not right to send fees without the labor secretary. It had to be changed.

Labor Minister Aryal has instructed the department to close the business of the manpower company that collects money. "The manpower company has raised the amount. Against whom more than five complaints have been filed. Stop the business of that manpower company,' Labor Minister Aryal, who recently came to inspect the department's operations, instructed Director General Ghimire.