Itahari, June 18: Minister of State for Labour and Transport Management Surendra Hamal has said that the government is making effort to create opportunities for productive employment, and take the country along the path of prosperity through vocational training apart from launching poverty alleviation programmes.

Inaugurating the three-day eastern regional training programme organised at Dharan by International Labour Organisation, Nepal Trade Union Congress and Nepal Transport Labourers Union here today, Mr Hamal said that the government had already introduced an act for the prevention of child labour and as the labour unions were one of the major means to move the country along the path of progress, HMG was sensitive on leadership development of the people working in all the agencies linked with labour.

Noting that the problems existing in the labour sector could be gradually resolved through mutual cooperation between the labourers, employers and the government, he called upon all concerned to make concerted effort in identifying and resolving problems of this sector.

General secretary of the Nepal Trade Union Congress Puskar Acharya said that the main objective of the training was to prepare leadership for the identification of the problems of the labourers. As the labour act has not be implemented effectively, the problem of the labourers have become more complicated, he added.

CDO Baman Prasad Neupane, secretary of the Koshi Bus Operators Association Krishna Prasad Subedi and a host of other speakers expressed their views at the function chaired by central resident of Nepal Transport Labourers Union Laxmi Narayan Mishra. Participating in the training programme are 25 persons from Sunsari, Morang, Jhapa, Udayapur and Saptari districts.