Migrant Resource Centre in Kaski DAO

Kaski, Aug 21: A Migrant Resource Centre (MRC) was established in the District Administration Office (DAO) Kaski, which is aimed at providing counselling services and facilitating potential migrants for their foreign labour migration. 

The Pokhara Metropolitan City helped set up the MRC in Kaski with its Rs 1.6 million in investment.

Mayor of Pokhara Metropolitan City Dhanraj Acharya said the MRC will provide information on safe migration as well as counselling and legal assistance.   

He added that the MRC was established to provide counselling on work safety, recommendations for free of cost training to potential migrants and legal assistance to those in difficulties.

The government has partnered with UN agencies and different development partners for the idea of the MRC in Nepal. According to the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), MRC is conceived as a central point for information and orientation to key services and it acts as a hub for the coordination of all awareness raising activities. "It links (potential) migrants, returnees and their families to a range of services relating to safe migration, such as (free) skills training, legal aid and associated support, psychosocial counselling and financial literacy classes," it states. (RSS)