Kathmandu – Executive Director of the Foreign Employment Board, Dwarika Upreti, has said that there is an increase in the trend of going to foreign employment without obtaining a work permit. Responding to the questions raised in the third session of the ‘Second National Banking Discourse 2024’ on ‘Sustainable Use of Remittances for Socio-Economic Development and Future Guidelines’, Upreti said that there has been an increase in the trend of going to work abroad without a work permit from Nepal.

He said, “We have not been able to stop the process of going to work abroad without a work permit.” As a result, the number of people going to work abroad without a work permit and changing companies without skills is around 20 to 30 percent. As a result, Remintas is also affected.

In the third session of the discourse, ‘Sustainable usefulness of remittances for socio-economic development and future guidelines’, Executive Director of Bank and Financial Institutions Regulation Department of Nepal Rastra Bank Guru Prasad Paudel, Demographic Statistics Expert Chetan Adhikari, Executive Director of Foreign Employment Board Dwarika Upreti, Deputy Executive Officer (DCEO) Suman Pokharel, Deputy Executive Officer (DCEO) of Global IME Bank, senior journalist Tikaram Yatri is the facilitator of this session.