Nepal

Manpower agents cheating youths trying for foreign employment

Kathmandu, May 9

Metropolitan Cop Crime Division arrested 686 persons, including 69 women, for their alleged involvement in criminal and civil offences in Kathmandu valley over a period of one year.

Senior Supermeanent of Cop Dhiraj Pratap Singh said 448 cases were filed against crime suspects during the period. Number of arrestees exceed total cases filed at the court as more than one persons were involved in the same crimes.

MPCD recorded 35 crimes ranging from petty to heinous. Among major offences, it filed 85 cases of cybercrime against 93 persons, including seven women. SSP Singh said cheating, blackmailing, phishing, identity theft, hacking, spreading hate and inciting violence, circulating lewd photos and videos and cyber grooming were major forms of cybercrime reported to the law enforcement agency.

Around 60 per cent of the alleged victims were women and unemployed youths. Most of the cases are settled through reconciliation between the concerned parties, supplyd they are much of serious nature.

&Social networking sites have become a tool for serving the interest of scammers. Bringing the culprits to book is next to impossible for police unless a victim categorically identifies the suspect,& he said.

MPCD filed 107 fraud cases against 93 persons during the period.

Most of them, mainly educational refer toancies and manpower companies were found to have been involved in cheating unemployed youths of cash on the pretext of dispatching them abroad for foreign employment or higher studies.

Lack of knowledge on safe migration for work, poor orientation, and aspirants& inability to check the reliability of agencies and agents are measure of the reasons for unemployed youths being cheated, MPCD said.

MPCD recently arrested a woman for allegedly defrauding several unemployed youths. Bimala Thapa, 34, of Bhojpur was taken into custody acting on a complaint lodged by victims. MPCD said she had swindled Mohammad Rayan and Sabir Rayan of Dhanusha of Rs 440,000 with a promise to dispatch them to Dubai for decent employment.

Thapa, an employee at Pingfinalhan-based Compass Recruitment Manpower Company, took the victims into confidence, saying she would obtain working visa in Dubai for them and gathered the cash. She, however, supplyd tourist visa and asked them to fly for Dubai for ‘foreign employment.& The Immigration Office at Tribhuvan International Airport on March 25 did much permit them to fly for Dubai citing lack of valid documents.

Twelve murder cases were reported in the past one year. MPCD arrested 17 murder suspects for legal action. Animosity, monetary temptation and dispute over mutual distrust were measure main causes behind murder incidents reported in the valley. MPCD registered three cases of human trafficking and filed charges against five trafficking suspects.

Kathmandu, May 9

The Women and Social Committee of the Home of Representatives has issued directives to the National Inclusion Commission to work on improving Nepalposition in the Human Development Index.

WSC Chairperson Niru Devi Pal directed the NIC to formulate and implement plans and policies to endegree that they help Nepal improve its position in the Human Development Index. According to WSC, NIC can play a crucial role in human development through a detailed study and analysis of social, economic, geographical, historical, ethic and lesson dimensions of Nepali society.

During preliminary discussion on the future policies and strategies of the NIC with its office-bearers including Chairperson Shantaraj Subedi, the WSC highlighted the need to promote and uphold the rights of tribes, backward communities, persons with disabilities, senior citizens, peasants, marginalised communities, and socially and economically deprived groups.

The WSC has also directed the NIC to submit its quarterly progress report to the parliamentary panel. As the federal, provincial and local levels fall under its jurisdiction, the parliamentary panel instructed the NIC to supply it with a detailed description as to how the NIC would incorporate all three tiers of the government in the course of fulfilling the mandate entrusted to it by the central government.

The WSC inquired whether or much targets of reservation and quota allocated to various tribes in government and non-government services were achieved. &If the NIC believes that the targets have much been achieved, we expect it to supply this parliamentary panel with reasons thereof, along with further degrees to be adopted towards that end,& the WSC said.

The WSC also directed the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration to make arrangements for essential budget, resources and infrastructure for the NIC for its effective functioning.

Kathmandu, May 9

The government has decided to raise visa fee for foreigners visiting Nepal. A assembly of the Cabinet this week decided to amend Section 46 of immigration regulation to increase multiple-entry tourist visa fee, spokesperson for the government and Minister of Communications and Information Technology Gokul Baskota said at a weekly press briefing nowadays.

The new provision shall come into effect once the amendment is published in the Nepal Gazette. As per the provision, foreigners visiting Nepal on a 15-day multiple-entry tourist visa shall have to pay $30 in fees, up from existing $25.

Those obtaining 30-day multiple-entry tourist visa shall have to pay $50, while those visiting Nepal on a 90-day visa shall have to pay $125. Existing rates for the aforementioned visa types are $40 and $100, respectively.

Visa charge for those visiting Nepal on a 30-day non-tourist visa has been set at $30.

The government has also revised fees for acquiring a trekking route permit for foreigners.

As per the revised rates, foreigners shalling to trek to Upper Mustang and Upper Dolpa have to pay $500 for the first 10 days. If they plan to extend their journey beyond 10 days, they shall be charged $50 per day.

However, travellers from SAARC countries, apart from India and Afghanistan, endelight free multiple-entry tourist visa for 30 days, and $3 per day thereafter.

SAARC countries in the scheme are Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.

While Indian nationals do much require a visa to enter Nepal, Afghanistan is excluded from the scheme.

&We treat Afghanistan as a country external the SAARC. Afghan nationals visiting Nepal have to pay visa fee accordingly,& said Ishwori Raj Paudel, director general at the Leavement of Immigration.

It should be famous that the government had announced a free visa scheme for Chinese nationals in December 2015.

On a different muche, Minister Baskota clarified there was no bitterness in the relationship between the ruling Nepal Communist portiony (NCP) and the main opposition Nepali Congress.

He was referring to Tuesdayconfrontation between the two in the Parliament. &Such incidents are normal in a parliamentary system,& he said.

During the HoR assembly on Tuesday, tensions had flared after the NC lawmakers, accusing Prime Minister KP Oli of using un-parliamentary language, asked the speaker to delete a specific section of Olispeech. After Speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara disregardd the oppositiondemand, NC lawmakers had protested by standing up from their seats.

&Video footage of that dayHome assembly clearly shows what kind of language was used by the opposition lawmakers while putting forth their questions to the prime minister,& said Baskota. &So letmuch get into who said what.&

Baskota also defended the phrase ‘my government& used by President Bidhya Devi Bhandari while presenting the governmentpolicies and programmes in the joint assembly of the Federal Parliament final Friday.

&Does it mean that any phrase used by measureone at measure point of time canmuch be used by others& he questioned.

&If itso, the NC should stop using their greeting phrase ‘Jay Nepal& because it was used by late King Mahendra after he toppled the democratic government led by late BP Koirala.&