Ramprasad Chaudhary of Kailali Joshipur has been going to India for work for four years. After planting, he goes to Shimla to pick apples in the dry season and returns home to celebrate Dasaintihar. After Tihar, they go back to Shimla to cut grass and work in apple orchards. On Wednesday, he was about to go to Shimla through the Gaddachouki border, but he was always troubled by one thing. When returning home, it is a problem to bring the money earned from wage labor. Even sending it from India is a problem. Not only this, various problems also occur in the workplace due to the fear of being robbed on the road.

While he was looking for a job, last week the Cabinet passed the National Labor Immigration Policy 2082. Which will also cover India's employment in labor migration . Besides keeping the record of going to India for employment, it will provide welfare services to the workers . "When we come and go, we always get pain, even when we bring our earned money, it is a hassle," Chaudhary said. Even those with low income and no skills enter India as unskilled workers . They work from daily wages to janitorial work. But how many Nepalis are currently working in India? How much money comes in? How many people enter India in search of work in a year ? There is no record on this topic yet.

"Many people die while traveling from their place of work in India, but their relatives do not even get any relief," said Raj Bahadur Bohra of Bajhang, who has been going to India for employment for a decade, "We heard that the policy has come, will it solve such problems?" But he is not convinced that it will not be implemented. ``This policy at least considers employment in India as foreign employment, then they also talk about management,'' Prakashchandra Madai, associate director of Needs Nepal, a non-governmental organization that has been advocating for a long time in the field of immigration in India, said. Does not cover employment . The current policy mentions that along with the collection of records, it will also be included in the social security fund. The policy provides for record keeping through employment service center at the local level . "Periodical insurance, inclusion in social security fund and health protection of those who go to India for employment are the main issues," Madai said, "The current policy seems to cover that, if you can keep the data of people going to India, a lot of things can be managed."

According to a study conducted by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in 2019, there are 30 to 40 million Nepalis working in India. Out of which 10 lakhs come and go for employment. But till now, no agency in Nepal has any data on this matter. It seems that India's employment can be organized only if the necessary laws are made and implemented as soon as possible along with the

policy. "Various organizations and studies have been demanding this," said Deepakchandra Bhatt, an associate professor at Sudurpaschim University, who has studied immigration in India. This matter is also complicated.' He said that it will be difficult to organize and keep records as they will not go for a certain period like a third country.