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Why Recruit Nepalese

Through the experience gained over the years in the foreign employment it has been seen that many countries have shown their interests in recruiting the Nepalese skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled manpower because of the following reasons:

Nepalese workers are well known for their hard work, dedication and loyalty.
The employers could get the advantage of wider choices.
Every categories of manpower are mostly readily available.
Formalities and procedures for the recruitment are fairly simple and swift.
Nepalese workers are comparatively cost effective and their hiring cost is lower as compared to most other labor exporting countries.
Nepalese workers are experienced in working in the extreme climatic conditions.
Nepal is situated pretty close to the labor importing countries and is linked by air with these countries.

Manpower Recruitment History from Nepal

The Anglo-Gurkha War in the early Nineteenth Century was a turning point in the history of the recruitment of the Nepalese workers abroad. Highly impressed by the bravery of the Nepalese fighters (the Gurkhas) during the battles in the Nepalese highlands which followed the Treaty of Sugauli with them, the British started recruiting Nepalese youths in their separate battalion called the Gurkha Battalion. As part of the British Force in the First and Second World Wars, the Nepalese soldiers fought with gallantry in the battlefields. They were better known for their integrity, loyalty, honesty, and dedication and for being very hard working. The then tripartite agreement between the Governments of Britain, India and Nepal in 1947 following the Independence of India opened the doors for recruitment of Nepalese youths in the British and Indian Armies.

Time and situation have now changed due to the efforts and investment of the Government in the education sector and the recruitment of Nepalese need not be restricted to the army. The production of the educated and skilled as well as the semi-educated and semi-skilled mass is growing after the advent of nationwide education and trainings and the youths have started to join the work force willing to go and work overseas. Besides each year a large number of educated and under-educated youths also join the work force seeking job opportunities in foreign countries. Realizing the imperatives of the foreign employment in the economic growth of the country, the Government of Nepal introduced the Foreign Employment Act in 1985 and joined the employment market by sending its surplus manpower out of the country for employment.

But in reality the outflow of the Nepalese workers from the country in considerable number started only after 1990. Professionally educated and talented work force is attracted towards the west for their career development and economic gains whereas vocationally skilled, semi skilled and unskilled workers are finding their opportunities in the Middle East particularly in the Gulf countries.

The Gulf countries initially were unaware of the Nepalese manpower. The British companies started recruiting Nepalese workers in Bahrain in mid 1980s in small numbers. The employers of the Gulf countries were reluctant to recruit Nepalese workers doubting that the Nepalese may not be able to work in the scorching heat and desert environment. As a matter of fact being accustomed to hard work proved that the Nepalese were in fact able to undertake any kinds of job and under any circumstances. Today several hundred thousands of Nepalese construction workers, unskilled, semi skilled, skilled and professionals like accountants, managers, engineers are now working in many countries in the Gulf region. The United Arab Emirates is one of the major countries where a large number of Nepalese nationals are currently working and owing to their hard work and loyalty, their demand is also growing by the day!