Half the Nepalese don't have a job!

Nearly half the population of Nepal lives without a job. So what happens when people don't have jobs? Because there are no opportunities, many go for overseas employments particular in countries like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Malaysia, Thailand Singapore, Hong Kong, UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand and other countries. Those without jobs are also the easy pray of Maoist Gorilla's recruitments, many unemployed get into crimes, and some of the young women and girls may have to resort to prostitution.

In cities unemployed are everywhere scattered, pondering all day of life's twist. If you don't have a job, you don't have a job. There is no public services for unemployed people. There is no such thing as "Unemployment benefits" If you don't have a job or if you lose a job, you are doomed, unlike in rich countries where you are secured by the Government untill you find a job. Getting a job through merit is after getting a job through bribery.

Finding Government jobs are also hard. One has to through ridiculously prepared hard tests so called "Lok Sewa" where irrelevant test papers are prepared by government officials, often such tests do not get the qualified candidates!

Productivity of the most public servants is so low that once they are fired they have difficulties getting jobs in private companies. Most of the public services are over staffed and have overlapping procedures which are all very complicated. For example, to achieve a simple task, you might have to carry your documents from office to office, officer to officer, just to get a few signatures of persons who are obvisouly feed by Nepalese tax money!

Jobs from private companies are also hard to obtain as family owned private companies selection methods are biased, often they tend to select relatives or people from their friendship circle. There is no minimum wage standard here, anybody can be paid at any rate for any job. There is no such thing as vacation, medical insurance paid leaves except for a few. Some private company's human resource polices are so tight that humans are treated like possessions, so many people work under a bond such as for 3 years, 5 years, and if one wishes to quit earlier, he/she is punished by means of deductions in salary or provident funds.

Jobs are said to be for specific class of people. For example, a person with a Bachelor's Degree won't do any other job such as a waiter, but will keep searching for jobs empty stomach- some are just too pompous, only a few will do just about thing to make money!

Nepal Employment Facts:

Nepal's unemployment figure is about 50%
About 150,000 Nepalese work in Qatar - source (Gorkhapatra, Nepal June 2005)
Nearly half of Nepal's Journalists are without a job after the King's Take over
Due to ongoing war in the country and due to lack of employment oppertunities, Nepal is slowly losing its people (source - BBC News Oct 2004)