KATHMANDU, Dec 16: The task force formed to study whether Nepali manpower companies syndicated for Qatari police have submitted the report to the Minister of Labor, Employment and Social Security.
A five-member committee led by Director General of the Department of Foreign Employment Kumar Dahal submitted the study report to Minister Rameshwar Yadav this Sunday. The report will be sent to the Committee on Industry, Commerce, Labor and Consumer Affairs under the Legislature-Parliament, the ministry said.
Director General Dahal informed that a fact-finding study on syndication from manpower companies have been submitted to the Minister. He said the report was not only the subject of the syndication related to Qatar but also the agreements reached between the two countries for Qatari employment, policy provisions and the recent incidents of some foreign employment companies violating those provisions.
Director General Dahal said, “There has been no legal ambiguity in the committee’s two-week study of Qatar issue. The two countries seem to be clear, but some companies have tried to violate the policy. On the issue of whether the rumors that 16 manpower companies have been involved for illegal practices while sending Nepali youth to Qatari police, the committee has questioned various manpower entrepreneurs within a period of two weeks but has not been able to prove that there was a syndicated practice.”
The committee had five members including the Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, two Deputy Secretaries of the Ministry of Labor and the President of the Foreign Employment Businessmen’s Association.
The Committee on Industry, Commerce, Labor and Consumer Affairs under the Legislature-Parliament had directed the Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Security to investigate the issue of 16 Nepali manpower companies who were allegdly sending Nepali workers to Qatar.
Officials from the Qatari embassy in Nepal were also questioned and inquired with the Qatar Visa Center in Qatar and the Ministry of Labor through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were also included in the report. The committee has suspended all operations of the three foreign employment manpower companies that interviewed for Qatari police and security guards without prior approval for six months.
All transactions of SOS Manpower, DD Human Resource Service and Hope International Manpower have been stopped as per the Foreign Employment Act.
