Govt lifts ban on Nepali migrant workers in Iraq
Wednesday, 28 July 2010 18:59
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The government has lifted the ban on Nepali migrant workers in Iraq, Wednesday.

Spokesperson at the Ministry of Labour and Transport Management Purna Chandra Bhattarai organised a press meet at the ministry Wednesday afternoon and informed journalists about the government decision to lift the ban on Nepali migrant workers in Iraq.

The government had banned Nepali citizens from migrating to Iraq for work after 12 Nepalis were brutally murdered by an Islamic radical group in August, 2004.

Minister for Labour and Transport Management Mohamad Aftab Alam, who is in his hometown Rautahat at present, approved the decision to lift the ban from his hometown Wednesday.

Speaking at the press conference Bhattarai said, the government lifted the ban as the security situation in Iraq had improved over the years and there is no threat to Nepali citizens at present.

Although, Nepal had banned its citizens from going to Iraq for work, more than 30,000 Nepalis are still working in Nepal.

Nepal took the decision to lift the ban after the Nepalis working in Iraq faced a threat of repatriation following stringent orders from the US Central Command in Iraq to the companies employing foreign workers to employ workers in compliance with the local, international and US laws and the laws of the home country of the migrant workers.

The ministry has decided to forward its decision to the US government and the Iraq government for necessary action. A letter about the same has already been sent to the US embassy in Kathmandu via the foreign ministry.

High level government officials including Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, chief secretary Madhav Ghimire, foreign ministry secretary Madan Kumar Bhattarai and labour ministry secretary Dinesh Adhikary held several rounds of discussion before taking the decision.

Although, the ministry has decided to lift the ban, it has decided not to send new workers to Iraq before further assessing the situation of Nepalis in Iraq.

The labour ministry has also requested the foreign ministry to invalidate the notice ‘not valid for Iraq’ marked in the passports issued after 2004. nepalnews.com


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Bishwaraj  - " Lunatic Government can do nothing good for peop   |41.210.191.xxx |2010-07-30 17:23:06
It's a brilliant idea from corrupt lunatic Nepal Government to lift the ban
on
Nepalese migrant workers in Iraq as there is no job in Nepal for
Nepalese
people. No job in Nepal, 18 hours load shedding a day, Nepal banda,
Chakka Jams' Garbage stinking on road sides, pot holes on the middle of the main
road
and colleges school closes... ba ba these leaders have done nothing for
Nepalese
people, they have just wasted their time in Parliament eating
taxpayers money and made our country without cons-ti-tu-tion for 5 years..!!
They have failed to control unimployment and create the job for people. that's
why Nepalese citizen are suffering and dying everyday on the
foreign soil..
A
concern citizen
Anonymous   |115.187.16.xxx |2010-07-29 22:13:58
.. we shouldn't forget our fellow Nepalese had been brutally killed there and
some even decapitated. I personally don't have any problem with the current
decision of labour ministry as the Nepalese migrant workers don't have to come
to Nepal against their will. But nomore Nepalese should be sent to IRAQ at any
cost coz that will be humiliation to NEPAL. Instead of pleading for justice, we
are licking our own spitted spittle.
Anonymous   |86.15.175.xxx |2010-07-29 20:39:04
Yesta phukuwata pahilai garnu parne thiyo tara je hos dhilai bhaepani yeslai
swogat bhannu parchha. Iragma kun kaaranle pahila 12 Nepaliko hatya bhayo yeska
ahile samma pani kasaile khojnu sakeko chhaina,matra hatya garyo bhanera taliban
samua ra bidrohi haru lai dos dieka chhan,bhanne nai ho bhane yeska dosi America
ra Nepal sarkaar bahek aru hunu sakdaina. There were some contraversy types
politics and policy of the Nepal govt and American. Iragma kaam garne Nepali
kasaiko birudda ladnu gaeko hoina,matra kaam garera usko ra usko pariwarko jyan
paalanko laagi gaeka hun bhane Al qaeda,Taliban ya kunai pani bidroile pani
bujheka hunchhan ra sartama awashyanai chhadi dinchhan, tara kasari
bibhattarupma hatya bhayo yeska rahshya pharak awashyani hunu parchha.
shekh Mohd Shahid Amani  - Govt lifts ban on Nepali migrant workers in Iraq   |218.146.32.xxx |2010-07-29 17:30:04
According to Country Situation This is Good News ,as we Know
In Our Country
Don’t have a Job Opportunity ,Because The, W e Have Nonsense Political
Leaders
He Improve the Unemployment . We Have to Much Resources in our
Country Our Nonsense Leaders
Crush Every Thing .
Any way Minister for Labour
and Transport Management Mohamad Aftab Alam is Very tried to Visit Foreign
Country so He Need to take Rest
Thank You
Shekh Mohd Shahid Amani
R/o
Santapur-Dostiya Rautahat Nepal
Amit  - To the editor..   |99.181.193.xxx |2010-07-29 13:42:12
Although, Nepal had banned its citizens from going to Iraq for work, more than
30,000 Nepalis are still working in Nepal.

Please change to IRAQ instead of
NEPAL. Need more professional editor.
Thank you.
Amit
Anonymous   |218.186.11.xxx |2010-07-29 13:41:50
checkout the contents and read ten times before posting, that s
N CONRESS U S A  - GOVARMAN   |98.221.154.xxx |2010-07-29 11:08:56
Iraq is not like Moust in NEPAL>ok that Iraq couuntry Oil war by kubeti
DALLAL.WE have to know .why people from nepal they can go for work for there
life >FUTUER in NEPAL>GOVAR MAD NEPAL THE COUNTRY SAVE BY INTERNATIONAL worker
who live out of NEPAL .Do YOU know GOVAR MAD DALAL >Seling pasport for
INTERNATIONAL PEOPLE who want NEPALIS {ID}to go out of country .N CONRESS& RPP &
Group {PASPORT& HIROYN &MARIFHANA &Bank &Rabary&CORPTION >>EVERY >KIND OF
>Business THEy DOING IN NEPAL >We have every singal recard you are {WHO} Nepal
is pice of CACK>do the right way.>YOU ARE NO way .in coming NEW NEPALGO >ASAILAM
SOM WERE YOU>ANIMAL
Rajan Tamang Magar  - Nepali Kanun   |75.172.116.xxx |2010-07-29 09:43:52
Nepal ko Kanun, Bhagawan Janun.
Why they lift ban? Any satisfactory reason?
They are doing anything they like. No ethics and brain.
himesh arya  - Freedom   |205.167.2.xxx |2010-07-29 05:34:54
What happend to Human rights of freedom. People can go to any place and work.
Nepalis who go to work in Iraq are not dumb. They are going to the worst country
to make their living. Nepali goverment would rather spend their time, energy,
tax money to build their own empire than creating jobs in Nepal. Why the hell
would the government send those women to the MT. everest. I dont even see a
logic in it. Sorry got carried away.
Bishwaraj  - " Lunatic Government can do nothing good for peop   |41.210.191.xxx |2010-07-29 03:43:47
" It's a brilliant idea from lunatic Nepal Government to lift the ban on
Nepalese migrant workers in Iraq as there is no job in Nepal for Nepalese
people. No job in Nepal, 18 hours lond shedding a day, Nepal banda, Chakka Jams
and colleges school closes... ba ba these leaders have done nothing for Nepalese
people, that's why Nepalese citizen are suffering and dying everyday on the
foreign soil..
A concern citizen

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