Stakeholders have said that there is a misconception that information technology (IT) and artificial intelligence (AI) will take away jobs. This was said by the speakers who participated in the second session of the second day of the National Labor and Employment Conference-2081, 'Possibilities of Nepal in Information Technology Development and Job Creation'. They commented that there is an illusion that AI will take away jobs while it was said earlier that IT will take away jobs.
Sashidhar Ram Joshi, a professor at the Institute of Engineering Studies, Pulchok, said that there was a misconception that employment would decrease after the use of IT 40 years ago . "There was a movement in India in 1985 that jobs would decrease after using IT," he said, "40 years ago I was a computer consultant at Krishi Bikas Bank". I was also asked that employment will decrease after the use of IT .'
The development of IT will create jobs and He had the experience of adding new job opportunities. "It is more appropriate to develop IT in Nepal as well," he said. It can be brought to Nepal.'
President of Flex Tech Nepal, Sudan Chapagai, also said that there is an illusion that AI will take jobs. "He will do his job after putting the information he needs. AI will not work until we say something," he said, "so the illusion that AI will take away jobs should be removed."
Previously, a project was completed in 2 months with 15 employees, but now after the use of AI, it was completed in 2 days . He said that AI will only facilitate the way and style of work. "It won't take our jobs, we can take a lot of work from AI," he said.
Kailas Badu, the vice president of Jaynes Solutions, who established Cloud Factory in 2011, said that it is employing 20,000 people. "It is necessary to develop industries in Nepal, an environment should be created for Nepali companies to go to the world or foreign companies to come to Nepal," he said. Therefore, the government should create a suitable environment for foreign companies.' He said that there is still a big gap in the IT sector of Nepal and the IT sector of the world.
Dhan Bahadur Wik of the Joint Trade Union Coordination Center said that they are preparing to submit a proposal for amending the Labor Act as it is not applicable in the information technology sector. "Working in a faceless and cashless sector, workers' rights and bargaining power are reduced, that's why the Labor Act should be implemented," he said. You should give more than 50 thousand . The Labor Act is not only about minimum wages . It is for the self-esteem of workers who do physical and physical labor.'
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli's information technology expert Asghar Ali said that 5 to 6 months of training should be made mandatory for IT students in Nepal. He said that the infrastructure should be built which is not only cheap.
