Inspiration Stories
By Sushma Shrestha
It is unfortunate to state that our government has encouraged our youths to go abroad for a dirty and dangerous jobs. It is much more unfortunate that the government’s major source for earning foreign currency has become the remittance revenue. Our economists have warned that the nation’s economy should not rely on the remittance income as it cannot be a long-term business for earning foreign currency.
Now, due to the increasing trend of youths going to foreign countries for jobs, many villages are suffering from an acute shortage of the working-age population. Only those elderly citizens, females and children are staying in villages as the working-age youths have gone to foreign countries in search of a job. Meanwhile, it has become a fashion that parents don’t want to accept a mirage proposal if a boy has not gone to foreign countries for the job.
Nepal is a naturally rich country. Due to the bad leadership, the Nepali population is suffering a lot. The government is unable to give proper guidance and training to the working-age population. If the government provides self-employment training and ideas for a start-up business, our youths can earn sufficient money even by working in Nepal.
Many youths, recalling their terrible experience of hard jobs in foreign countries, upon their return from the foreign countries, have started their own business and achieved tremendous success. One story is about Makar Bahadur Tamang of Sindhupalchowk District.
Tamang, a resident of Lisangkhupakhar Rural Municipality-5, Jethal, Sindhupalchok spent four years in Saudi Arabia. After seeing vegetables growing in the sand there, he returned to his village and started vegetable cultivation in his own village.
His family did not have enough food to eat for six months and has now started earning five lakh rupees annually from vegetable farming. In addition, Tamang has given employment to 30 people. Narrating the experience of Saudi Arabia, Tamang said, “If you put five feet of soil on the sand, you can plant vegetables on it”.
He said that by using his experience of working in the vegetable market there, he managed to get a good profit. Tamang, who is also the president of the Sildhunga Vegetable Collection and Potato Seed Store, complains that the concerned sector has not paid attention to the irrigation facility, although there is plenty of source of water for irrigation.
Instead of chemical fertilizers, Tamang uses organic pesticides on vegetables. After realizing that vegetables using chemical fertilizers increase chronic diseases, he started using organic pesticides instead. “Now I make pesticides from weeds and spray them on vegetables”, Tamang says.
Taman’s success story could be taken as an example that our youths can earn money within the country more than they earn in foreign countries by doing risky jobs.
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