South Korea has approved 200 labour quotas to Nepal, which had been suspended last year following dispute between the government and the manpower agencies over the selection of workers.
News reports Monday said the South Korean Federation of Small and Medium Entrepreneurs has decided to issue altogether 200 quotas for 2005. Moondrops Overseas, a private manpower agency, has been roped in for sending workers to Korea.
“The quotas have been issued to Moondrops Overseas and it will soon start sending workers to South Korea,” The Kathmandu Post quoted Purusottam Ojha, secretary at the Ministry of Labour and Transport Management, as saying.
He added that the government this time would not interfere into the selection process of the workers and that the ministry has strictly directed the said manpower company not to charge more than Rs.204,000 for sending each worker to South Korea.
Earlier, the government and Lumbini Overseas, a manpower company authorised to send workers to Korea, had locked horns over the selection process of workers and the fees charged by the company, which ultimately led to the scrapping of the company’s license.